W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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I have, like, 45 celeb crushes at all times - celeb and Instagram crushes. I'm such a creep.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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I enjoy my food. I like to grill; I do that a lot. I like meat and have big dinners - steak, red meat splurges, prime cuts.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.
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I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
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WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
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We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
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Owen Wilson... I loved him in Royal Tenenbaums when his shirt was off and his gut was showing. I don't care if a guy is out of shape.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
