W. Edwards Deming Quotes
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
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I don't pick stuff up, I knock stuff down!
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I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.
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Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
