"Perhaps the hardest lesson of all is that there is no such thing as 'getting it right'-least of all with the promulgation of quality."

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Source : Mary Walton (1991). “Deming management at work”, Putnam Publishing Group

Mary Walton

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“One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.”
“Buying shoes is the highest form of shopping.”
“For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.”
“Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.”
“When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.”
“I think any actor will tell you that they always assume they'll never work again, so every job becomes important. But Better Call Saul is a real capstone for me, a once-in-a-career opportunity, I think. I'm so happy they decided to invite me to their party. I can't wait to see where it takes me.”
“Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.”
“I believe democracy requires a 'sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works.”

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