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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
WILLIAM A. FOSTER, quoted in Igniting the Spirit at Work: Daily Reflections
Quality tends to fan out like waves.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
VLADIMIR LENIN, quoted in James F. Dunnigan's How to Make War
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Don’t judge the quality of the gasoline by the filling station attendant.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD, quoted in Elizabeth Dole's Hearts Touched With Fire
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
ANTHONY ROBBINS, quoted in 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead
Any philosophic explanation of Quality is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word ‘quality’ cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, A Voice from the Attic
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James McHenry, Aug. 10, 1798
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG, NPR interview, Jul. 12, 1974
The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.
VINCE LOMBARDI, quoted in The Coaches' Chalkboard
All lives are filled with confrontations ... how we handle those confrontations, determines the quality of our day and ultimately the quality of our lives.
TONY BLAUER, Quotations for Martial Artists
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, A Voice from the Attic
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, The Western Lands
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
RAMSEY CLARK, International Herald Tribune, Jun. 18, 1991
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
ARISTOTLE, quoted in Sango Mbella's Sophia's Fire
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after low pricing is forgotten.
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