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
Quotes to Explore
-
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
-
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.
-
I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
-
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
-
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
-
We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
-
Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
-
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
-
I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
-
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.
-
I love football, football is my life.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
-
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
-
You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.
-
I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
-
I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.
-
I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
-
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
-
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
