quality

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
fd5e507	The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.	writing skill quality writers	Ray Bradbury
bc191d1	Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.	literature sacredness quality	Günter Grass
a9d0176	Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.	work philosophy quality	Robert M. Pirsig
42a85fb	The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.	internalization practical-application quality	Robert Greene
b9c905d	"You've got to live right, too. It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you're working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Qaulity or fall away from Qaulity together."	quality zen perfect	Robert M. Pirsig
7b914bb	We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!	creating human beauty care handmade quantity craftsmanship efficiency grace art skill quality value machines pleasure	Bill Watterson
a2ba098	But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there--good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you're uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.	humor quality	Sarah Vowell
4ca4adb	International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.	economics quality	Alexander McCall Smith
9c8d633	As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.	organic quality	Michael Pollan
7040b5a	The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.	conventionality repetitiveness quality standards	Pauline Kael
7b373f8	In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.	ill live life others envy quality drama dying	Mitch Albom
65fa3f4	The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud.	suffering inspirational-quotes succor quality mercy	Frances Hodgson Burnett
037c96c	You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.	care music work-environment observations distractions excellence habits quality consciousness	Robert M. Pirsig
ad32780	"May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW."	groovy quality	Robert M. Pirsig
5e58cfb	Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north--just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.	quality	Natalie Goldberg
268375f	Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.	opportunity truth idea implement meet occur quality make ideas unique creativity	Robin Hobb
2b7c2a9	"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."	work automaton employees mindless mindfulness mindset sheep perspective quality consciousness awareness	Robert M. Pirsig
166adf0	I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.	hard-work quality	Gail Carson Levine
2c0b9bb	He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.	learning outlines what-is-quality how-to-write research rhetoric writing-craft quality writing-process teaching	Robert M. Pirsig
1c4c7d5	Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.	worthiness quality judgement enemies	Jim Butcher
ee6160b	Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.	books potboilers dashiell-hammett william-faulkner quality sanctuary writers	Lillian Hellman
2e3fd39	People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless. I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple.. counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally.	senseless ill live life love quality moment gossip	Mitch Albom

fd5e507

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

writing skill quality writers

Ray Bradbury

bc191d1

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.

literature sacredness quality

Günter Grass

a9d0176

Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.

work philosophy quality

Robert M. Pirsig

42a85fb

The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

internalization practical-application quality

Robert Greene

b9c905d

"You've got to live right, too. It's the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren't working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you're working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Qaulity or fall away from Qaulity together."

quality zen perfect

Robert M. Pirsig

7b914bb

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there's no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them! Our lives are made drearier, rather than richer! How can a person take pride in his work when skill and care are considered luxuries! We're not machines! We have a human need for craftsmanship!

creating human beauty care handmade quantity craftsmanship efficiency grace art skill quality value machines pleasure

Bill Watterson

a2ba098

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there--good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you're uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

humor quality

Sarah Vowell

4ca4adb

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

economics quality

Alexander McCall Smith

9c8d633

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food.

organic quality

Michael Pollan

7040b5a

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

conventionality repetitiveness quality standards

Pauline Kael

7b373f8

In a strange way, I envied the quality of Morrie's time even as I lamented its diminishing supply. Why did we bother with all the distractions we did? .. give up days and weeks of our lives, addicted to someone else's drama.

ill live life others envy quality drama dying

Mitch Albom

65fa3f4

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud.

suffering inspirational-quotes succor quality mercy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

037c96c

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

care music work-environment observations distractions excellence habits quality consciousness

Robert M. Pirsig

ad32780

"May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW."

groovy quality

Robert M. Pirsig

5e58cfb

Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north--just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.

quality

Natalie Goldberg

268375f

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

opportunity truth idea implement meet occur quality make ideas unique creativity

Robin Hobb

2b7c2a9

"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, "I am a mechanic." At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."

work automaton employees mindless mindfulness mindset sheep perspective quality consciousness awareness

Robert M. Pirsig

166adf0

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

hard-work quality

Gail Carson Levine

2c0b9bb

He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless.

learning outlines what-is-quality how-to-write research rhetoric writing-craft quality writing-process teaching

Robert M. Pirsig

1c4c7d5

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies.

worthiness quality judgement enemies

Jim Butcher

ee6160b

Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.

books potboilers dashiell-hammett william-faulkner quality sanctuary writers

Lillian Hellman

2e3fd39

People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless. I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple.. counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally.

senseless ill live life love quality moment gossip

Mitch Albom