Taiichi Ohno Quotes

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

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• I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Healthy

• People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Picture
  • Year

• There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Failure
  • Yourself

• Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Gay
  • Equality

• It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Song

• No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • World
  • Education
  • Value

• Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Long
  • Song

• The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Age
  • Logic

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• I don't believe we're meant to just die and go to nothing.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Believe
  • Die

• I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great
  • Live
  • Power

• I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

  

  Martin Chalfie
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Age

• I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Desire
  • Improvement

• In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Feels
  • Leadership
  • Improvement

• People expect some kinds of decisions from Putin that will help them see their own future. A significant part of the people that he relies on are quite content with him telling them that nothing is going to change. But that part of the elite that does want to see some changes and improvements are going to expect him to, in his next term, bring Russia back into the club of the great powers.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Power
  • Decision
  • Improvement

• We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.

  

  John Portman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Environment

• For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Country
  • Fire
  • Search

• Without standards, there can be no improvement.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Improvement
  • Standards