"John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]"

-- Martin Burns

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“In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody.”
“I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.
“Mine is a quiet explorationâ€”a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.”
“My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.”
“If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.”
“While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy with what we are and what we are doing.”
“Iâ€™ve seen all I need to. Iâ€™m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”
“You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.”

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