Jim > Jim's Quotes

“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the result that it does.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing”
― W. Edwards Deming

“A goal without a method is cruel.”
― W. Edwards Deming

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage