Waste Quotes - Page 19

• And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Lines, Reducing, Lean Manufacturing

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• The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Race, Causes, Tortoises

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• The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Winning, People, Life And Death

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: Our days, our hours, our minutes ... it is so easy to exist instead of live.

  Anna Quindlen

  Easy, Hours, Minutes

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

  George Santayana

  War, Flower, Generations

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.52, MIT Press

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• I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

  Neville Goddard

  Keys, Doors, Expression

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• The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

  Simon Brett

  Real, Energy, May

  Simon Brett (2011). “Mrs. Pargeter's Package”, p.136, Severn House Publishers Ltd

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• Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste.

  Simon Singh

  Science, Thinking, Nuclear

  Simon Singh (2004). “Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and why You Need to Know about it”

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• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Oil, Roots, Machines

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Mother, Sick, Poverty

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• Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

  Laura Miller

  Fire, Stories, Body

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Wise, Men, Brain

  John Hall Gladstone (1872). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, London : Macmillan & Company

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• How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

  James Payn

  Educational, Judging, Gentleman

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From this atomic waste the people of Nagasaki confront the world and cry out: No more war! Let us follow the commandment of love and work together. The people of Nagasaki prostrate themselves before God and pray: Grant that Nagasaki may be the last atomic wilderness in the history of the world.

  Takashi Nagai

  Suicide, War, Mean

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• Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of  'destruction' and 'waste'.  Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease.  Then  economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of  goods

  Petr Skrabanek

  Tuberculosis, Disease, Sound

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• When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Car, Energy, Pay

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

  Robert Ruark

  Sleep, Men, Games

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• Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don’t like

  Sixto Rodriguez

  Strong, Hate, Emotion

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• I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

  Gail Kelly

  Moving, Judgement, Important

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Excellence

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• The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Flower, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Growing Up, Two, Water

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• I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

  Phil Donahue

  Stupid, Silly, Feelings

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse of U.S. tax dollars.

  Russ Carnahan

  Hype, Abuse, President

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• The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  Ernest Newman

  Inspiration, Waiting, Wasting Time

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