Walter A. Shewhart Quotes
Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
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'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.
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My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
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When clever people ask me where I get a poem, I despair.
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After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.
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The further left one goes, the more negative the assessment of today's America and the America of the past.
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I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.
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Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.
