Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school or even a single class is a great bet too.

As a woman my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler more compassionate approach. I consult I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth you are a great leader.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know understand control or measure them.

Considered now as a possession one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

As a young actor people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking 'This is what I love doing and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

If you want to be an entrepreneur it's not a job it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails first thing in the morning you'll read emails and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

I am all about health... and to me size is not what defines your health.

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

When I was waiting tables washing dishes or mowing lawns for money I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path my own journey an American journey where I could think for myself decide for myself define happiness for myself.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

In the book I define conservatism as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution respect for life less government and personal responsibility.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government our economy and our country.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him or define him.

We're at the crossroads. Down one road is a European centralized bureaucratic socialist welfare system in which politicians and bureaucrats define the future. Down the other road is a proud solid reaffirmation of American exceptionalism.

For some reason people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not I seem to be it.