"The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist."

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Source : "Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement".

Shigeo Shingo

#Problem Quotes #Approach Quotes

“Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.”

Source : "PrimeTime Exclusive: Katherine Harris Interview" by Rebecca Raphael, abcnews.go.com.
“Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today . Socrates and Galileo , John Brown, Thoreau , Christ , and Debs Heard the night cry down with traitors, and the dawn shout "Up the reds!”
“It's just the easiest way to score a point.”
“No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.”
“Modern money is almost altogether credit money.”
“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

Source : Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.”
“To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate”

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