Defects Quotes

343 quotes by 266 authors

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. — Emile M. Cioran
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors. — John Macmurray
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they… — Anita Loos
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus
The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or… — Steve McIntyre
The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus… — Dixie Lee Ray
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." — Theodore Roosevelt
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply… — Jean-Georges Noverre
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles… — Jean-Georges Noverre
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a… — Katherine Dunn
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make… — Audrey Tautou
If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are… — Paul Brunton
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
Every deadline was a crisis â€¦ No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood… — Hunter S. Thompson
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life. — Joel Fuhrman
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
God gave me a physical defect, I've accepted that since I was a kid. When I was a kid people were laughing at me. But… — Jean Chretien
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion… — Jane Porter

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