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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye. -- Tim Ferriss
If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem. -- George Carlin
Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training -- Charles Handy
The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. -- Warren Buffett
I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process. -- Maya Angelou
I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control. -- Seth Rogen
As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies. -- Akio Morita
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects. -- Steve McIntyre
It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse. -- John C. Reilly
It takes almost no capital to open a new See's candy store. We're drowning in capital of our own that has almost no cost. It would be crazy to franchise stores like some capital-starved pancake house. We like owning our own stores as a matter of quality control. -- Charlie Munger
No marshmallows. "I don't believe this! I'm going to write the president of General Mills! Don't they have any quality control?" "I'm sure it's just a fluke" "Doesn't make any difference whether it's a fluke or not. It shouldn't have happened. When a person buys a box of lucky charms he's got expectations -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest -- Warren Buffett
The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine? -- Frank Zappa
That's absolutely true, but one problem with the digital revolution, which may tie into what I said earlier, is that there can be a collapse of quality. You may not have liked the decisions made by publishers in the past, you may not have liked the decisions made by magazine editors or newspaper editors in the past. At least there was some quality control -- William Monahan
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home. -- Grover Norquist
I do a lot of collaborations and productions, whether it's Switch or Steve Aoki or No ID or Will Smith or No Doubt - I always like to collaborate and be a quality control person for the people 'cause I have my own taste in music and bring that to other peoples' brands and help them learn a little bit. -- Diplo
Quality has to be caused, not controlled. -- Phil Crosby
Quality control starts and ends with training. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
Time control directly influences the quality of play. -- Boris Spassky
Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. -- Robert Breault
Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise. -- Kaoru Ishikawa
By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth. -- Barry Commoner
You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them. -- John Travolta
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. -- Marlee Matlin
I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers. -- John Carney
We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans. -- Paul Ryan
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms. -- Ben Horowitz
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality. -- Rupert Murdoch
Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities. -- Bono
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. -- David Seabury
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. -- Oliver Lodge
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. -- Martin Filler
Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world. -- William Glasser
Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs. -- Todd Park
Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, it's not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs. -- Mick Cornett
The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes. -- Norman McLaren
President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost. -- Bev Perdue
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. -- John Lasseter
Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive. -- George Bernard Shaw
Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems. -- Masaaki Imai
To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. -- Siri Hustvedt
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it." -- Siri Hustvedt
A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man. -- Theodore Roosevelt

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