"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
— Gustave Flaubert

"Quality is doing it right when no one is looking. "
— Henry Ford

"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

"International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky."
— Alexander McCall Smith (Love Over Scotland)

"Control of consciousness determines the quality of life."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

"What's measured improves"
— Peter Drucker

"I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."
— Richard Buckminster Fuller

"I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem."
— Buckminster Fuller

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The geography of bliss


"When Americans say it was great, I know it was good. When they say it was good, I know it was okay. When they say it was okay, I know it was bad."
-Laura Klos Sokol"
— Laura Klos Sokol

"It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality."
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

"Die Kategorie der Qualität ist für die Masse zu fein; sie setzt sie um in die Kategorie der Quantität."
— Hans Delbruck (Geschichte Der Kriegskunst)

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
— Leonardo da Vinci

"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear."
— Felix Adler