You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

No one can remember more than three points.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Successful people breed success.

You don't have to be noisy to be effective.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

When you're out of quality, you're out of business.

Don't put the cart before the horse

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

I had never binge-watched TV before 'Orange.'

I don't surf the web very much.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Happiness is there when you express kindness compassion and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

I'm the guy that gets up at three in the morning to jot down an entire sheet of lyrics for something that won't be recorded for six months. You have to get it down when you can, because thoughts are fluid.

I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

The questions are scientific, but the UN answers are political. The global warming debate is hardly about science.

Society is better off without certain people.

King Abdullah is a reformer.

I spent more money on one robe than guys spend in five years.

There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

There's something about you and I'm finding it impossible to stay away. Whenever you're near, 'I love you' is all I want to say.