Defined Quote by Robert M. Pirsig Download Open image “Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.” — Robert M. Pirsig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Excellence Funny Inspirational Knows Love Quality
We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Inherent quality is part of absolute quality and without it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense… — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it’s quality. — Emerson Spartz Copy Share Image
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image