Shingo Quotes

#1. Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light ...

Carol Shields

#2. I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

Marla Runyan

#3. 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

#4. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.

Kiefer Sutherland

#5. 'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

Monique Coleman

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

Shigeo Shingo

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

Shigeo Shingo

#8. A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

Richard Paul Evans

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

Shigeo Shingo

#10. Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.

Randall Dale Adams

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

Shigeo Shingo

#12. Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

Shunryu Suzuki

#13. Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

Raymond E. Feist

#14. Bow down to me Pooky Bear, who has only two other equals in all the worlds.

Susan Ee

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

Shigeo Shingo

#16. Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.

Daisy Donovan

#17. 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

#18. What's wrong?" Blayne finally asked.
"Nothing," Gwen answered. "I'm just sitting here. Staring." Maybe hoping a bear would wander out of the woods to say "hi and I'm sorry I broke my promise.

Shelly Laurenston

#19. Life is not a fairy tale, and if you think it is, you better stop reading now.

Bink Cummings

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

Winona Ryder

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

Shigeo Shingo

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

Shigeo Shingo

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

Shigeo Shingo

#26. May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

Daniel Boone

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

Shigeo Shingo

#28. You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Mahatma Gandhi