W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

I appreciate individualism.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

I wanted to use my possibility to be an individual, and I suppose I have, no?

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

It feels good to create, and to actually have input, and your choices are your choices.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.