W. Edwards Deming Quotes
People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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I just can't read music.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Nowadays, there is a new trend that has started. Up to assembly election results, they were targeting Modi. Now it is very difficult for them to target Modi. So now you must have read so many articles, so many discussions on the TV: 'there's something wrong with the people of Gujarat'. This has the sic started!
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Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
