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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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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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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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
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I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.
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I like to meditate. But I get rid of my stress at the gym.
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The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.
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Leadership rests not only upon ability but upon commitment and upon loyalty and upon pride and upon followers...Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all the needed talents to go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
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The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.
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Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
