W. Edwards Deming Quotes

What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?

W. Edwards Deming

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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.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Time
  • Civilization
  • Taste

• What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Family
  • New
  • Broadway

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
  • Book
  • House

• '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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Different
  • Together
  • Respect

• 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.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• 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.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Appreciate

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Museum

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Culture
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Knows
  • Selling
  • Salesman

• 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.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Real
  • True
  • Action

• I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Think
  • Always
  • I Can

• 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.'

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Reality
  • Small

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Star

• Touring can be really tiring. I can get homesick, and I spend a lot of time on my phone.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Time

• I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Small
  • Fly

• I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.

  

  Garfield Sobers
  • People
  • Game

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Trying