"Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen"

-- Taiichi Ohno

#Kaizen Quotes #Standards Quotes

“My perfect Sunday is waking up at 10 - which, you know, those days are over for me - but waking up at 10, breakfast with children, hanging out with well-behaved children.”
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.”

Source : N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press
“You cannot know what you do not feel.”
“Every day ordinary people do extra-ordinary things!”
“As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.”
“I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or â€œgrimâ€ or â€œgritty,â€ I just think, â€œOh, come on, look a bit deeper.â€ My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'.”
“You canâ€™t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone elseâ€™s appreciation.”

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