Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of…

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

— Peter Pronovost

“Perceptions of the world and of other actors diverge from reality in patterns that we can detect and for reasons that we can understand.”

— Robert Jervis

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life,…

— Jay-Z

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Science values static patterns.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing…

— Malcolm Forbes

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

— Mason Cooley

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

— Gershon Legman

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil