W. Edwards Deming Quotes
Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam.'
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We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.
