W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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I have faith in the jury system.
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God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
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A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I am saying what comes out, because I'm really not a methodical writer. I'm not a good building writer, where you are like "well, I going to make a song today, and I think it will be a pop song." Some people are great at it and it's beautiful. If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
