Andon Quotes & Sayings

The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers. — John Dos Passos

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it. — Emanuel Cleaver

Chirag: Rowley, do you think I exist?
Rowley: Nope! I can't even hear you or see you! — Jeff Kinney

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves
To spend his time in his accustomed art. — Ovid

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit. — Rio Ferdinand

People, Florence thought as she put on her shoes. What do I need them for again? — Brian Morton

The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need. — Henry B. Eyring

Our film industry, must cease portraying us as a nation of decayed values, fallen moralities and juju-obsessed people. — Sunday Adelaja

The neuroscience of consciousness is not going to stop in its tracks because some philosophers guesses that project cannot be productive. — Patricia Churchland

It was like... like singing. From my hand. — Brandon Sanderson

By lunchtime, everyone inside the factory had heard the story. The next day, andon cords were pulled more than a dozen times. The next week, more than two dozen times. A month later, the plant was averaging nearly a hundred pulls a day. The — Charles Duhigg

So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many. — Edmund Morgan

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again. — Akio Toyoda

I had a bunch of different colored hats I wore. When I started wearing a pink one, we won five or six tournaments in a row, so I stuck with it. It started as superstition and now it's tradition-my hideous trademark that I always wear. — Karch Kiraly

Nothing scares me more than a failed attempt. The last thing I want is to end up in a wheelchair, eating pulverized food and being watched around the clock by some sassy nurse who has a not-so-secret obsession with cheesy reality TV. — Jasmine Warga