W. Edwards Deming Quotes
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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Interior design is a business of trust.
Venus Williams
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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.
Yoenis Cespedes
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann
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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?'
Tammy Duckworth
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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.
Barbara Kruger
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
Walt Mossberg
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
John Burns
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How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?
William Wilberforce
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I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
Studs Terkel
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I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.
Eli Broad
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
