Shigeo Shingo Quotes

#1. Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.

Virginia Woolf

#2. And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

Stephen Chbosky

#3. Those who are not dissatisfied will never make any progress

Shigeo Shingo

#4. The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

Shigeo Shingo

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

Shigeo Shingo

#6. Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do

Shigeo Shingo

#7. When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.

Shigeo Shingo

#8. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

Shigeo Shingo

#9. And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

Neil Gaiman

#10. A relentless barrage of 'why's' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

Shigeo Shingo

#11. Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

Shigeo Shingo

#12. I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.

Ethan Hawke

#13. We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

Shigeo Shingo

#14. Further, a document names and identifies the actual Red Light Bandits (plural), because in fact there are two.

Caryl Chessman

#15. There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

Shigeo Shingo

#16. Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Shigeo Shingo

#17. Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

Shigeo Shingo

#19. Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.

Shigeo Shingo

#20. It felt exactly like someone had hit me in the head with a church.

Patrick Rothfuss