I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive . . .
Barbara Deming
Related I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concep... BARBARA DEMING All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys... CHRIS WARE For those who have walked through the fires of hell and rather than fall to its flames, have emerged... SHERRILYN KENYON When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM But above and beyond there's still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will... T.S. ELIOT Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The concept that man is not awake, and that only a fully conscious being can "do", have will and not... COMPTON GAGE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another. DECIMUS LABERIUS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God is not so much of a concept which we think about with our mind, but God is a person that we enco... CHRISTOPHER WEST Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ... RANDALL TERRY I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. ROBERT KIYOSAKI We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get... STANLEY HAUERWAS Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that ... MICHAEL MOORE Money is a failed concept because of humans unpredictable and bizarre behavior. Life is about behavi... EPHDAN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW No one will want to rush naming a new Crown Prince. The succession will be chosen by the family and ... ANTHONY HARRIS The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we s... TONY CAMPOLO The method that is required is not one of correlation but of liberation. Even the term “method” ... MARY DALY Each of us, I think, adopts a comfortable and familiar era or place in which to plant ourselves; and... DANIEL D. VICTOR I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM 15. “The love of money is the root of all evil” (1Timothy 6:10, KJV). That’s why Jesus issues ... JAMES C. DOBSON My hopes are that the naming of this post office facility is only the first of many tributes for a m... DIANE WATSON You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ... RICHARD CURTIS Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. MARY DALY Women have had the power of naming stolen from us MARY DALY Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our grea... GREG ANDERSON A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA What about the truth?” Ethan asked. “In some environments, safety and truth are natural born ene... BLAKE CROUCH The whole concept of treating people with dignity and respect is a concept that isn't a business... GREG BRENNEMAN Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. RICHARD EYRE I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM You're naming the price you want to pay, and let us find an airline with empty seats where they'll r... JAY WALKER The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their r... MADCHEN AMICK Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask. LIONEL SUGGS The adolescent brain can only fleetingly hold onto the concept of other person. TERENCE T. GORSKI We felt that we needed to formalize the process for naming schools. The community has an opportunity... HARRY KINNAN Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and t... CHRISTINA ENGELA To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE The ladies of the Saturn Guild are so excited to sponsor Fabulous Friday and the naming contest. We ... KARL MCKINNON The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgeh... JAMES COLLINS until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing bu... KIRK HAMMETT Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set ... BARBARA JORDAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Naming my favorite books feels like naming a favorite child - impossible. LIBBA BRAY When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open bor... ULRICH BECK Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a cover... ROBERT CRAY
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult the... BARBARA DEMING There should be no censorship of mail. BARBARA DEMING The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should lov... BARBARA DEMING I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concep... BARBARA DEMING All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever b... BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places tha... BARBARA DEMING To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The mos... BARBARA DEMING We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in b... BARBARA DEMING The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have ... BARBARA DEMING People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do ha... BARBARA DEMING Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determinati... BARBARA DEMING We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whos... BARBARA DEMING Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. BARBARA DEMING Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. BARBARA DEMING Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter othe... BARBARA DEMING Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. BARBARA DEMING Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the though... BARBARA DEMING The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full ... BARBARA DEMING The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all... BARBARA DEMING But if institutions of restraint might still be necessary, they should no longer be institutions of ... BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, when one person injures another, society would concern itself most immediately... BARBARA DEMING After the revolution, surely the only good reason for institutions that could still be called prison... BARBARA DEMING Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of... BARBARA DEMING ...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. Bu... BARBARA DEMING A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. BARBARA DEMING Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought... BARBARA DEMING This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human ... BARBARA DEMING Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult th... BARBARA DEMING Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossi... BARBARA DEMING We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- who... BARBARA DEMING Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. BARBARA DEMING I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the j... BARBARA DEMING A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. BARBARA DEMING If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what your
doing. BARBARA DEMING They did a really good job. BRIAN DEMING We were short some girls. If we had them, it might have been very close. BRIAN DEMING They really did an impressive job. BRIAN DEMING They were excited for a little while, but they knew they had to get back to business. They know they... BRIAN DEMING When you have that many personnel bests, it's a huge accomplishment for any coach and team. BRIAN DEMING She needed 14 feet even and she jumped 14-feet-1-inch. It's a great accomplishment and I'd like to s... BRIAN DEMING We had a lot of great performances by the kids. Overall, I'm pleased with how we ran and how we perf... BRIAN DEMING Last year we didn't have any points, so to get on the point scale is a big deal. BRIAN DEMING Christian won his heat, substantially. He's less than two seconds off of qualifying for the [Cass S]... BRIAN DEMING It's the last meet of the season and it's the last chance for the kids to qualify for the state tour... 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DRAKE DEMING Our direct measurement confirms this estimate. DRAKE DEMING We basically play whatever Kim wants to play, and whatever he plays he has fun with. He often will p... DOUG DEMING An audience really gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see one of today's most compelling blues ar... DOUG DEMING We have no gimmicks. We play pure traditional music from the heart, with an image that conveys a dee... DOUG DEMING I hope it gets cold pretty quick. I'm getting calls from people in Ohio and Indiana who usually come... DOUG DEMING They're out in about 14 feet of water. That's where the fish are. I've been getting a few walleyes i... DOUG DEMING I'm really glad I bought this thing. It has been an amazing workhorse. I don't like to take chances,... DOUG DEMING Whoa! There's not as much ice here as I thought there was. I don't think we'll go any farther. DOUG DEMING These are just some efficient ways without spending a lot of taxpayer money [to reduce energy costs ... CLAIBORNE DEMING If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is pride of workmanship. W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. W. EDWARDS DEMING Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. W. EDWARDS DEMING In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ... W. EDWARDS DEMING You should not ask questions without knowledge. W. EDWARDS DEMING Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have... W. EDWARDS DEMING The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ... W. EDWARDS DEMING Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. W. EDWARDS DEMING When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. W. EDWARDS DEMING The emphasis should be on why we do a job. W. EDWARDS DEMING We are here to make another world. W. EDWARDS DEMING People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th... W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility. W. EDWARDS DEMING The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer. W. EDWARDS DEMING In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really though... W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility. W. EDWARDS DEMING Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, ... W. EDWARDS DEMING No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replac... W. EDWARDS DEMING Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. W. EDWARDS DEMING What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top pe... W. EDWARDS DEMING If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new ... W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. EDWARDS DEMING Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, ... W. EDWARDS DEMING Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far m... W. EDWARDS DEMING The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to ... W. EDWARDS DEMING A bad system will beat a good person every time. W. EDWARDS DEMING The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. W. EDWARDS DEMING The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. W. EDWARDS DEMING The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. W. EDWARDS DEMING It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ... W. EDWARDS DEMING What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every... W. EDWARDS DEMING If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality starts in the boardroom. W. EDWARDS DEMING There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose. W. EDWARDS DEMING There must be consistency in direction. W. EDWARDS DEMING You can not define being exactly on time. W. EDWARDS DEMING It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding. W. EDWARDS DEMING If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. W. EDWARDS DEMING We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. W. EDWARDS DEMING I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protecti... W. EDWARDS DEMING Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things. W. EDWARDS DEMING Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! W. EDWARDS DEMING Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. W. EDWARDS DEMING It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ... W. EDWARDS DEMING We must understand variation. W. EDWARDS DEMING Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes. W. EDWARDS DEMING Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems. W. EDWARDS DEMING A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim o... W. EDWARDS DEMING Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem. W. EDWARDS DEMING If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one. W. EDWARDS DEMING Innovation comes from the producer -- not from the customer. W. EDWARDS DEMING When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of
Relativity, Albert Einstei... W. EDWARDS DEMING Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis... W. EDWARDS DEMING Break down barriers between departments. People in research, design, sales, and production must work... W. EDWARDS DEMING A leader of transformation, and managers involved, need to learn the psychology of individuals, the ... W. EDWRDS DEMING Our customers should take joy in our products and services. W. EDWARDS DEMING We want best efforts guided by theory. W. EDWARDS DEMING Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possi... W. EDWARDS DEMING The customer is the most important part of the production line. W. EDWARDS DEMING We do not know what quality is. W. EDWARDS DEMING A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. W... W. EDWARDS DEMING Any manager can do well in an expanding market. W. EDWARDS DEMING Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse. W. EDWARDS DEMING A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. H... W. EDWARDS DEMING You can not inspect quality into the product; it is already there. W. EDWARDS DEMING Off we go to the . . . Milky Way! W. EDWARDS DEMING The program has helped our local farmers develop unique and beneficial products. GOVERNOR CHEN DEMING Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. ... W. EDWARDS DEMING All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. 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 The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K... BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve. BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every... BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count... BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post... BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou... BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found... BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c... BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se... BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav... BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as... BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa... BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me. BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children... BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha... BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ... BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval. BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,... BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj... BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family. BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho... BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. 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