quotations about quality
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
Quality is conformance to requirements.
PHILIP CROSBY
attributed, Total Quality Management: Text, Cases, and Readings, Third Edition
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
Quantity has a quality all its own.
VLADIMIR LENIN
attributed, How to Make War
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.
SHERMAN ALEXIE
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
interview, NPR, July 12, 1974
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to James McHenry, August 10, 1798
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
JOHN BUCHAN
Augustus
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
A Voice from the Attic
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
JOSE BERGAMIN
Head in the Clouds
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
EMILE ZOLA
attributed, And I Quote
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
FRANK HERBERT
Children of Dune
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Conversations with Eckermann
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
attributed, Sophia's Fire
Nothing endures but personal qualities.
WALT WHITMAN
"Song of the Broad-Axe", Leaves of Grass
All good qualities are not united in one person.
AR-RABI
attributed, Day's Collacon
The quality of beauty lies on how the beholder values an object.
TOBA BETA
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Come, give us a taste of your quality.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations