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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Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.
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There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
