Taiichi Ohno Quotes
I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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I'm very lazy when it comes to making the original sound. I don't go through amplifiers and different compressors and signal parts. I just grab something, whether its an old guitar or a children's toy that happens to be lying around, and record it straight into the computer.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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We've always believed in our music.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.
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Haitians don't like to say they are hungry because we are proud.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!
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I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.
