A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.

It only takes a little innovation.

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

No requirement of industry is so much neglected as operational definitions.

The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

Every reformation ruins somebody.

I didn't start jogging or running until I was 37 years old. It was something that really helped me change my life.

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for 'dialogue' with any gentile.

That's awesome. There's no bias in the media.

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.

A moment might be a thousand different things.

They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.

Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.

All rock and roll is homosexual.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.

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

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition.

Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.

There is no knowledge without theory.

A manager of people knows that in this stable state it is distracting to tell the worker about a mistake.

You can not define being exactly on time.

What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.

I love being a part of something that is grassroots, and you can see the actual changes, the effect of what people do.

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.

It's good to be in love.

Publicity can become invasive at times.