W. Edwards Deming Quotes
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.'
-
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
-
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
-
I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
-
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
-
It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
-
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.
-
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
-
So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
-
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.
-
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
-
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
-
I wasn't a great debater.
-
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
-
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.
-
And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.
-
You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.
-
For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.
-
To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.
-
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
