"I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun."

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David Rees

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“If we reduce batch sizes by half, we also reduce by half the time it will take to process a batch. That means we reduce queue and wait by half as well. Reduce those by half, and we reduce by about half the total time parts spend in the plant. Reduce the time parts spend in the plant and our total lead time condenses. And with faster turn-around on orders, customers get their orders faster.”

Source : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (1992). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”
“If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.”

Source : "Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World". Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, at the University-wide Commencement at The University of Texas at Austin, news.utexas.edu. May 16, 2014.
“Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.”
“I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.”
“Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.”

Source : "Billy Corgan launches blog on spirituality" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2009.
“When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.”
“The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.”
“Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.”

Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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