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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The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
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The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience.
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Tom's dad also passed away when he was a young man and he had that history of feeling he never really knew him properly - so he just seemed like the best guy to work with on this one,
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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
