Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our…

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

— Phil Crosby

We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

— Phil Crosby

Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance.

— Peter Drucker

“We need to give an informative set of criteria for the best explanation. It is very difficult to do so. Here are some factors…

— Michael E Emmering

“Coherence suggests that there is harmony, unity, and integrity between your vision and mission, your roles and goals, your priorities and plans, and your…

— Stephen R. Covey

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is…

— Hermann Hesse

Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human…

— Kenneth Tynan

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we…

— Gregory Orr

In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide…

— Gaston Bachelard

“To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.”

— Thomas Gilovich

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system;…

— John Trudell

By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between…

— Rosalind E. Krauss

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a…

— Anonymous

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the…

— Anonymous

I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The…

— Richard Grossman