W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I don't drink coffee.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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My looks vary, but I definitely think about it and plan. I like to shop, too, so I'm always mixing it up. But normally, I'll be wearing something like a college T-shirt and a sweater, something like that. But I definitely have to plan.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.
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My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.
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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
