W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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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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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or company fleece jacket or a gift card is fine, but it's not in keeping with spirit in which it all began.
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The people who work at FDA are just trying to do their jobs.
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To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
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It's all about having fun. Play hard and fair, don't hurt anybody. Feel good about what you're doing and how you're doing it.
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The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
