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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
-
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.
-
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
-
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
-
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.
-
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
-
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.
-
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
-
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
-
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
-
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
-
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
-
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!
-
I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
-
Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
-
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
-
A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
-
Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I.
-
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
-
I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.
-
As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice. Not just mammoth, but all kinds of fossils from the past. What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that's probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction. And I really wanted to know, when did we first cross that barrier?
-
Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
-
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.
