A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

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

Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

I find cutting myself attractive ... I find it sexual.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.

What is a nation without a mother tongue?

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

In terms of the 'S' word, that does not enter my mind. And it never has done. In terms of An Attempt. Because I am stronger than that. I might be a weak person, but I can take pain.

Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.

The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.

The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets.

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

I've never hit anybody in my life. I never would, and the only way I could make a point was by hurting myself...It's something I've done since I was a teenager.

I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.

I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie

You do not install quality; you begin to work at it.

People need to know what their jobs are.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.

Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.