All models are wrong; some models are useful.

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

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

If we learn to love each other and care, enduring peace will fill the world to share.

I think that just as we're in the nuclear era we're also in an era of non-violence. It's undefeatable.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.