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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Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.
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Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
