Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

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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.

Ray Bradbury

Tag: imagination writing writers quality skill

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There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

Tag: quality

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

Alexander McCall Smith

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Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Ambrose Bierce

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All good work requires self-revelation.

Sidney Lumet

Tag: creativity quality hard-work self-revelation realization

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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

Tag: quality americans enjoyment

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Die Kategorie der Qualität ist für die Masse zu fein; sie setzt sie um in die Kategorie der Quantität.

Hans Delbrück

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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.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Tag: quality design process

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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

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