W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I'm fascinated by Buddhism. I adore Buddhism, and I read about it all the time, but I haven't formally become a Buddhist, although I don't really know why I haven't. I guess I feel I don't need to.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
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Two gold medals and two silver, I don't think is that bad... I think I still did a pretty good job.
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You can not define being exactly on time.
