W. Edwards Deming Quotes
Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I love football, football is my life.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.
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Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
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Many people, including those from the BWF, don't really understand what the main problems in badminton are and what it most needs because many officials are not competitors.
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I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.
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I'm extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I'm working towards making it true.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
