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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'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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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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The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
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I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.
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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.
