Shewhart Quotes & Sayings

To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature. If we cannot bear the second well, that evil is ours. — C.S. Lewis

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past. — Walter A. Shewhart

Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others. — Barbara Mikulski

Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful. — Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated. — Walter A. Shewhart

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature. — Walter A. Shewhart

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later. — Jose Rizal

Love was the mystery nobody could solve, the fairy tale everyone loved to listen to and not quite believe in. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification. — Walter A. Shewhart

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. — Barbara Pym

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind. — Rafael Sabatini

Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision. — Walter A. Shewhart

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true. — Chad Kroeger

every employee and manager must understand who you are as a company, and what you stand for. They must be true to your brand values and be able to passionately explain them to your prospects and customers. — Richard Parkes Cordock

Don't worry, Chris. The day that Sony PlayStation attacks the world and threatens to destroy it, we'll give you a call. (Katra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. — Ryan Phillippe