Toyota Kaizen Quotes & Sayings

There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts. — Bill Walsh

Normally I laugh at such things, because there is nothing like a fart to lighten up a tense situation. — Kevin Hearne

If you want engagement, you must engage. — Karen Martin

Chaos is the enemy of any organization the strives to be outstanding. — Karen Martin

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. — Karen Martin

I twirl through the driveway with angelic grace
Till I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my face — Owl City

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. — Clive Barker

When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless. — Lenny Abrahamson

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. — Karen Martin

In many poor countries, the problem is not so much individual thugs and rapists but an entire culture of sexual predation. — Nicholas D. Kristof

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have. — Devendra Banhart

I can buy baseball cards to view an entire career on the back of a little square of cardboard. But nobody sells major league father cards with key statistics on the back ("Had a great season in 2005: set career highs in unforced expressions of affection and averaged 87 minutes of quality time per day.") — John Ortberg Jr.