Strategies for Industrial Maintenance, Operations, and Engineering

The Voyage of Life: Manhood by Thomas Cole, 1840

Quoted in Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence:

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. For the man who knows not what harbor he sails, no wind is the right wind.

—Seneca the Younger

2008 Explosion at Imperial Sugar in Port Wentworth, GA

Quoted in Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence:

So long as they are focused on events, they are doomed to reactiveness. Generative learning cannot be sustained in an organization where event thinking predominates.

—Peter Senge

Quoted in Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence:

You don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time.

—Vince Lombardi

The Voyage of Life: Youth by Thomas Cole, 1840

Quoted in chapter 3 of The Science of Success:

Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it; Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it.

—James Allen

Quoted in chapter 8 of The Science of Success:

Doctors of [the 15th century] kept their secrets locked in languages their patients could not read. To attack this citadel demanded a willingness to defy the canons of respectability, to uproot oneself from the university community and from the guild. Such a venture required as much passion as knowledge, and more daring than prudence. To open the way, a man needed the knowledge of a professional and yet not be committed to the profession. He should be in the physician’s world but not of it.

—Daniel Boorstin