W. Edwards Deming Quotes

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

W. Edwards Deming

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• I'm just a Connecticut country boy. The people I've known, the changes of season, the call of the blue jay - when I'm away, all of them haunt me.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Country
  • Boy

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Day
  • Sex
  • Everyday

• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Up
  • Think
  • Friend

• Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Confidence
  • Worry
  • Loss

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Country
  • Play

• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Short

• Gods always love the people who make em.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• I try to mix it up! I do a little Pilates. I do a little Cardio Barre; sometimes I run or do the stairs.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Man
  • Growing

• One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Woman
  • Need
  • Healthy

• My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

  

  Arsenio Hall
  • Father
  • Study
  • Scripture

• So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Stories
  • Faces
  • Finals

• I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Time
  • Management

• Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects of clearing a plate, carving tableside, or pouring wine, and a lifetime to master the emotional elements of service.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Great
  • Food
  • Perfect

• The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Service
  • Management
  • Differences