"It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below."

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Source : Joseph M. Juran (1945). “Management of Inspection and Quality Control”

Joseph M. Juran

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“Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.”
“Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.”
“If you set goals for yourself, and you're like a lot of other people, you probably realize it's not that your goals are physically impossible that's keeping you from achieving them; it's that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It's physically possible to lose weight. It's physically possible to exercise more.”
“When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?”
“Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!”
“I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.”
“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

Source : Paolo Veronese's testimony before the inquisition in Venice, as translated by Charles Yriarte, members.efn.org. July 18, 1573.
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”

Source : Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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