W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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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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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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'Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep' - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton
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Everything I do I believe in 100 percent, and I believe it's important.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
