"...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means."

-- W. Edwards Deming

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“I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.”

Source : Francis William Newman (1850). “Phases of Faith; or, passages from the history of my creed”, p.1
“I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave.”
“Drawing is still the bottom line.”

Source : Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.28, Studio Beckett Publications
“Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.”

Source : "Glenn Close and Rose Byrne's Fashion Face-Off" by Laura Morgan, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 16, 2009.
“We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.”

Source : The Sandman #30: "August",
“Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.”
“Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.”
“Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.”

Source : Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1906). “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones”

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