W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

The only subject I know anything about is myself and I don't know that too clearly.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I don't see outside of me.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Every time you think the problem is 'out there,' that very thought is the problem.

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

It's hard to talk about yourself.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

I think I'm good at looking moody. I'm not much good at analysing myself, but I tend to fit the strange and tortured characters.

I like to think of myself as an observer.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing