Doug Deming quote: "I hope it gets cold pretty quick. I'm getting calls from people in Ohio and Indiana who usually come up to Saginaw Bay to fish this time of year, but I'm telling them to wait a couple of weeks. It looks pretty warm for the next 10 days, but by the end of January it should get a lot colder."

We basically play whatever Kim wants to play, and whatever he plays he has fun with. He often will p...
DOUG DEMING

An audience really gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see one of today's most compelling blues ar...
DOUG DEMING

We have no gimmicks. We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a dee...
DOUG DEMING

They're out in about 14 feet of water. That's where the fish are. I've been getting a few walleyes i...
DOUG DEMING

I'm really glad I bought this thing. It has been an amazing workhorse. I don't like to take chances,...
DOUG DEMING

Whoa! There's not as much ice here as I thought there was. I don't think we'll go any farther.
DOUG DEMING

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult the...
BARBARA DEMING

There should be no censorship of mail.
BARBARA DEMING

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should lov...
BARBARA DEMING

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concep...
BARBARA DEMING

All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever b...
BARBARA DEMING

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places tha...
BARBARA DEMING

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The mos...
BARBARA DEMING

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in b...
BARBARA DEMING

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have ...
BARBARA DEMING

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
BARBARA DEMING

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do ha...
BARBARA DEMING

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determinati...
BARBARA DEMING

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whos...
BARBARA DEMING

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
BARBARA DEMING

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
BARBARA DEMING

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter othe...
BARBARA DEMING

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
BARBARA DEMING

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the though...
BARBARA DEMING

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full ...
BARBARA DEMING

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all...
BARBARA DEMING

But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of ...
BARBARA DEMING

After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately...
BARBARA DEMING

After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prison...
BARBARA DEMING

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the conc...
BARBARA DEMING

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of...
BARBARA DEMING

...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. Bu...
BARBARA DEMING

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
BARBARA DEMING

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought...
BARBARA DEMING

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human ...
BARBARA DEMING

They did a really good job.
BRIAN DEMING

We were short some girls. If we had them, it might have been very close.
BRIAN DEMING

They really did an impressive job.
BRIAN DEMING

They were excited for a little while, but they knew they had to get back to business. They know they...
BRIAN DEMING

When you have that many personnel bests, it's a huge accomplishment for any coach and team.
BRIAN DEMING

She needed 14 feet even and she jumped 14-feet-1-inch. It's a great accomplishment and I'd like to s...
BRIAN DEMING

We had a lot of great performances by the kids. Overall, I'm pleased with how we ran and how we perf...
BRIAN DEMING

Last year we didn't have any points, so to get on the point scale is a big deal.
BRIAN DEMING

Christian won his heat, substantially. He's less than two seconds off of qualifying for the [Cass S]...
BRIAN DEMING

It's the last meet of the season and it's the last chance for the kids to qualify for the state tour...
BRIAN DEMING

We have tried to keep up a good standard, but it's been hard.
ADAM DEMING

For now, though, oil and gas are irreplaceable.
CLAIBORNE DEMING

We hope the start-up is flawless. But we have never done anything like it. We could start putting oi...
CLAIBORNE DEMING

We have tried to keep up a good standard, but it's been hard. We've really had difficulty maintainin...
ADAM DEMING

In God we trust; all others must bring data
EDWARDS DEMING

Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult th...
BARBARA DEMING

Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossi...
BARBARA DEMING

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- who...
BARBARA DEMING

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.
BARBARA DEMING

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the j...
BARBARA DEMING

A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
BARBARA DEMING

Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.
W.EDWARDS DEMING

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what your doing.
BARBARA DEMING

We have some gaps in the system that need to be addressed. I'm not sure Florida has the type of moni...
ADAM DEMING

We expect to get back to 125,000 barrels per day quickly.
CLAIBORNE DEMING

Just put two people in a car instead of one.
CLAIBORNE DEMING

The faster the fervor goes up, the faster prices go up. But they will go down sooner or later, proba...
CLAIBORNE DEMING

The heat signal from this planet is so strong that Spitzer was able to resolve its disk, in the sens...
DRAKE DEMING

Our direct measurement confirms this estimate.
DRAKE DEMING

These are just some efficient ways without spending a lot of taxpayer money [to reduce energy costs ...
CLAIBORNE DEMING

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really though...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replac...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top pe...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far m...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

A bad system will beat a good person every time.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Quality starts in the boardroom.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

There must be consistency in direction.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

You can not define being exactly on time.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protecti...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We must understand variation.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim o...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstei...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Break down barriers between departments. People in research, design, sales, and production must work...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

A leader of transformation, and managers involved, need to learn the psychology of individuals, the ...
W. EDWRDS DEMING

Our customers should take joy in our products and services.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We want best efforts guided by theory.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possi...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The customer is the most important part of the production line.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

We do not know what quality is.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. W...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. H...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

You can not inspect quality into the product; it is already there.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Off we go to the . . . Milky Way!
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The program has helped our local farmers develop unique and beneficial products.
GOVERNOR CHEN DEMING

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. EDWARDS DEMING

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing
W. EDWARDS DEMING

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships wit...
DOUG COLLINS

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically c...
DOUG LIMAN

When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James...
DOUG LIMAN

The more real I got on 'The Bourne Identity,' the more interesting it got. So 'Fair Game...
DOUG LIMAN

Ice cream brings people together.
DOUG DUCEY

When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type...
DOUG COLLINS

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplish...
DOUG STANHOPE

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON

Money is good, love is wealth.
DOUG HORTON

I started my career wanting to make a 'James Bond' movie, and I couldn't get hired! I ma...
DOUG LIMAN

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
DOUG MCLEOD

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
DOUG HORTON

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, l...
DOUG HORTON

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
DOUG HORTON

If food were free, why work?
DOUG HORTON

Death is the final wake-up call.
DOUG HORTON

To awake from death is to die in peace.
DOUG HORTON

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
DOUG HORTON

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
DOUG DILLON

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON

Long-range planning works best in the short term
DOUG EVELYN

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
DOUG HORTON

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
DOUG HORTON

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING

The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
DOUG HORTON

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
DOUG HORTON

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
DOUG HORTON

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.
DOUG HORTON

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a w...
DOUG VARGAS

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.
DOUG HORTON

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
DOUG HORTON

Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
DOUG HORTON

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
DOUG HORTON

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big ...
DOUG HORTON

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for ...
DOUG HORTON

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attenti...
DOUG HORTON

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
DOUG HORTON

Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
DOUG HORTON

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang agains...
DOUG HORTON

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUG HORTON

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
DOUG HORTON

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
DOUG HORTON

There is no bad in good.
DOUG HORTON

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.
DOUG HORTON

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
DOUG HORTON

Usually a person has more faith in their fear than faith in their future.
DOUG FIREBAUGH

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
DOUG HORTON

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
DOUG HORTON

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUG HORTON

Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
DOUG HORTON

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.
DOUG HORTON

I hope it gets cold pretty quick. I'm getting calls from people in Ohio and Indiana who usually come up to Saginaw Bay to fish this time of year, but I'm telling them to wait a couple of weeks. It looks pretty warm for the next 10 days, but by the end of January it should get a lot colder.

Doug Deming

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