W. Edwards Deming Quotes
It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.
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I've always been into dressing and being stylish because I feel like that's where I gained a lot of my confidence and swag as a rapper, so fashion goes hand-in-hand with music to me.
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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Ideas worth questioning: 'Being an artist is a job for life.'
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It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to - that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated. Support is not enough; action is required.
