W. Edwards Deming Quotes
A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.
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We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
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A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.
