Quality Of Work Quotes

“Sometime look at a novice workman or a bad workman and compare his expression with that of a craftsman whose work you know is excellent and you’ll see the difference. The craftsman isn’t ever following a single line of instruction. He’s making decisions as he goes along. For that reason he’ll be absorbed and attentive to what he’s doing even though he doesn’t deliberately contrive this. His motions and the machine are in a kind of harmony. He isn’t following any set of written instructions because the nature of the material at hand determines his thoughts and motions, which simultaneously change the nature of the material at hand. The material and his thoughts are changing together in a progression of changes until his mind’s at rest at the same time the material’s right.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.”
― Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist

“This applause is a plagiarism. Yesterday another audience applauded in exactly the same manner.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“If you do anything with mediocrity, you will do everything with mediocrity.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Good writing is seldom written but gets written.”
― BS Murthy

“The trick is to work a paragraph until reading it puts a smile on your face, then you have set the bar for what goes around it.”
― J.S. Milik

“Tout ce qui vaut la peine d'être fait mérite et exige d'être bien fait.”
― Nicolas Poussin

“If something isn’t presentable at its ninety per cent, it wouldn’t be much different either at cent per cent”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love