Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 65.
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 68
Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 65.
“The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.”
Anthony Robbins book Unlimited Power
Source: Unlimited Power (1986), p. 198
“It is the little, pathetic attempts at Quality that kill.”
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Context: The city closes in on him now, and in his strange perspective it becomes the antithesis of what he believes. The citadel not of Quality, the citadel of form and substance. Substance in the form of steel sheets and girders, substance in the form of concrete piers and roads, in the form of brick, of asphalt, of auto parts, old radios, and rails, dead carcasses of animals that once grazed the prairies. Form and substance without Quality. That is the soul of this place. Blind, huge, sinister and inhuman: seen by the light of fire flaring upward in the night from the blast furnaces in the south, through heavy coal smoke deeper and denser into the neon of BEER and PIZZA and LAUNDROMAT signs and unknown and meaningless signs along meaningless straight streets going off into other straight streets forever.
If it was all bricks and concrete, pure forms of substance, clearly and openly, he might survive. It is the little, pathetic attempts at Quality that kill.
Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American astronaut; first person to walk on the moon
40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing (2009)
Armand V. Feigenbaum (1922–2014) American businessman
Cited in: D.H. Stamatis (1999) TQM Engineering Handbook, p. 12
Total Quality Control, 1983
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Hays translation
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
V, 16
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
Gerald Ford (1913–2006) American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977)
As quoted by TIME magazine (28 January 1974)
1970s
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Source: Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"November", p 450-457
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: There was something... total... something very undermining about the McGovern defeat... There was a very unexplained kind of... ominous quality to it... weeping chaos. People you'd never expect to break down... stumbled off the plane in tears... It was such a shock to me that although I'd gone back to Washington to analyze... I saw how ripped up people were... I decided to hell with this... So I just went right around to the main terminal and got on another plane and went back to Colorado.