W. Edwards Deming Quotes

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

I take a role because it makes sense to me, rationally.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

Go with the science!.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

What goes on in a person's head, what impels them to a political choice, it's a pretty complicated question.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

I have a theory that you can decide to make whatever day it is a good day.

Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.