W. Edwards Deming Quotes
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory.
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My wife forever has made fun of my Yanni CD that I had in college.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.
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I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is.
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It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
