W Edwards Deming Famous Quotes
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
"It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best."
"What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis."
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
W Edwards Deming Quotations
"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
Martin Luther King Jr
"What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected."
Chief Seattle
"We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide."
Nathan M Pusey
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Georgia O Keeffe
"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else."
Alfred Adler
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
"Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two."
H Hahn Blavatsky
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."
Og Mandino