W. Edwards Deming Quotes
What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?
Quotes to Explore
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.
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Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.
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Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.
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I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
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What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?
