Taiichi Ohno Quotes

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date

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• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hair

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Friendship
  • Ride

• I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Too Much

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Work
  • Real
  • Character

• I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Good
  • Different
  • Feels

• Mothers are not simply models of femininity to their daughters but also examples of how a woman reacts to a man. Daughters learn about fathers, and men, not only by being with Dad but also by observing their parent's marital relationship-- or its unraveling.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Relationship

• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Together

• Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Chance
  • Childhood
  • Lasts

• Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Alone
  • Looks
  • Modern

• What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

  

  Chip Heath
  • People
  • Problem
  • Looks

• I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.

  

  Elad Lassry
  • Photography
  • Conditions
  • Fail

• Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date

  

  Taiichi Ohno
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