“Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.”
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected.”
As quoted by TIME magazine (28 January 1974)
1970s
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Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXXIX: On Noble Aspirations
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), VII. On Air and Manner
Context: Few men, nevertheless, can have unison in many matters without being a copy of each other, if each follow his natural turn of mind. But in general a person will not wholly follow it. He loves to imitate. We often imitate the same person without perceiving it, and we neglect our own good qualities for the good qualities of others, which generally do not suit us.
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
As quoted in How They Succeeded (1901) by Orison Swett Marden
Context: I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Zakir Hussain (politician) (1897–1969) 3rd President of India
Source: Philosophy of Education, p. 86.
“The fortunes of a nation are determined above everything by the quality of its people.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland (27 August 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 129.
1927
“The quality of our life
depends on the quality
of the seeds
that lie deep in our consciousness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Understanding Our Mind (2006) Parallax Press ISBN 978-81-7223-796-7
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154, <br class="br">2000s, 2008
“The first quality of a leader of people – always the first quality – is a devotion to truth.”
Leon MacLaren (1910–1994) British philosopher
Leon MacLaren, Principles of Music, 1978
