Shewhart Quotes

#1. I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

Wendy Ewald

#2. Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile.

William Goldman

#3. Focus on giants and you will stumble, focus on God and your giants will tumble!

Shelley Thody

#4. Go talk to her," Boo said.
"About what?"
"Anything."
"You want me to walk up to her and say, 'Are you a ghost?'"
"I do that," she replied.
"I love it when you get it wrong," Callum said.
"Once. It happened once."
"It happened twice," Stephen said, looking over.

Maureen Johnson

#5. I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#6. When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. It doesn't matter what you feel. Just know the feelings are real. ~

Brittainy C. Cherry

#8. Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

Walter A. Shewhart

#9. O I'm so afraid that it's true about to travel hopefully being better than to arrive. It might be all in the quest, all in the search, all in the anticipation. When it came, there might be nothing there.

Brigid Brophy

#10. When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot.

Gideon Raff

#11. Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

Kathleen Dowling Singh

#12. No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

Jordan Belfort

#13. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.

Hans Kung

#14. Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Walter A. Shewhart

#15. Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.

Walter A. Shewhart

#16. Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Walter A. Shewhart

#17. Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

Walter A. Shewhart

#18. I had no time to make a world of my own: I had to stay fixed like Atlas, my feet on the elephant's back and the elephant on the tortoise's back. To inquire on what the tortoise stood would be to go mad.

Henry Miller

#19. Sometimes he hated that voice in his brain, the one that slapped him upside the head anytime he got too stupid. Funny, it happened a lot with Sienna.

Nalini Singh