"When you're out of quality, you're out of business."

-- Phil Crosby

#Quality Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.”
“It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what 'Kind of Blue' did.”

Source : "Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece". Book by Ashley Kahn, www.cnn.com. 2000.
“I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.”

Source : "My space". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.
“Laughter is more serious than tears.”
“....the designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.”
“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
“Opportunities for kindness are flowing past us continuously, during the hours we spend at home, in the office or store or shop or laboratory where we work, as we walk along the street, as we drive hither and yon, as we travel by train or plane or bus - in short, wherever we are and whatever we are doing.”
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.”

Source : R. J. Anderson (2011). “Ultraviolet”, p.216, Carolrhoda Lab

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