If not us, then who? If not now, then when? (Hon John Lewis)

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something. (Hon John Lewis)

You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light (Hon. John Lewis)

Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. (Hon, John Lewis)

Rudeness is a weak mans imitation of strength (From a Church Marquis)

If our promises are empty words, so is management’s response (From a Church Marquis)

Attached to choices are consequences, choose wisely (From a Church Marquis)

Honesty in Little Things is not a little thing (From a Church Marquis)

Nothing can be legally correct if is morally wrong (From Church Marquis)

To face the future, forgive mistakes of the past (From a church Marquis)

The ability to lie is a liability (From a church marquis)

It is choice not chance that defines our destiny (From a church marquis)

Don’t be too open minded, your brain might fall out . Message for project failure. (From a church marquis)

Do what you can today; you might not be here tomorrow (A Church Marquis)

Behavior is the mirror in which we show our image. (From a Church Marquis)

Get off the Bench. (from a Church Marquis)

From a Church Marquis – Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is a mystery and today is the present

When you feel as though you can’t do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it’s just a simple step, and don’t stop at the beginning. (Marcus Buckingham)

Focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be (Jimmy Chin)

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The world is a better place because of those who refuse to believe they cannot fly (Bill Gray)

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future (Deepak Chopka)

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the empowerment of people (Michael Manley)

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent Van Gough)

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.” (Thomas Alva Edison)

“Management is about telling people what to do, and leadership is about allowing people to do what they’re capable of doing.” (Bob Chapman)

“I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can’t prove that. And there are no models.” (Marvin Bower)

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures (Marvin Bower)

It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made. (Masaaki Imai)

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing, layout, processes, and procedures (Tom Peters)

“What gets measured, gets managed.” (Peter Drucker)

Everything can be improved. (Clarence W. Barron)

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they’re mutually reinforcing. (Michael Porter)

“Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.” (Henry Ford)

 “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. (Henry Ford)

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” (Henry Ford)

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.” (Henry Ford)

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning (Benjamin Franklin)

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. (Vincent Lombardi)

If you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers. A question asked the right way often point to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. (Edward Hodnett)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” (H. James Harrington)

“Don’t say it can not be done, rather say, you don’t know how to do it yet.” (Tomas Bata)

“If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” (Albert Einstein)

If you expect miracles in your life, then release any attachment to the outcome (joe Vitale)

 “If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.” (Stve Jobs)

If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.” (Russian Proverb)

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! (Karou Ishikawa)

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