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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.
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The better portion of all sales I have made were made after people had said 'no'.
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I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
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I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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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.
