A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Just have fun and take every bit of experience that you can.

Believe in yourself and don't care about haters.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

Just be nice to other girls because as a force we are a whole lot stronger when we stick together.

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

You must not run your Organization as a functional hierarchy. You must understand it as a System.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Just be yourself, be confident. Try and stand out - but in a good way. Stand out for being yourself other then wearing like a chicken suit or something.

Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.

A goal without a plan is a wish.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true! I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors!

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.

Your problems are never bigger than your purpose.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.

I'm in love with God and God's in love with me, this is who I am and this is who I'll be and that settles it. Completely.

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

We broke something, I think it was traction.

By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we'll lead them to damnation and not salvation.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.