Quality Guru Deming Quotes

#1. The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that's true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it's true of what we need to teach.

Alfie Kohn

#2. I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

Dan Barker

#3. Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

David Patrick Houghton

#4. I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Lisa Loeb

#5. It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Harvey MacKay

#6. Writing is freedom.

Don DeLillo

#7. In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save those of the owners, put a term to the arrangement.

Hilaire Belloc

#8. If you aren't willing
to love her,
do not put dents
on her heart
that will influence
her to believe that
she is hard to love.
That is cruel.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#9. There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Baal Shem Tov

#10. Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Jules Michelet

#11. I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

William Shakespeare

#12. I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

Boz Scaggs