Not if you have the right attitudes. It’s having the right attitudes that’s hard.
My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all.
Le strade migliori non collegano mai niente con nient'altro e c'è sempre un'altra strada che ti ci porta più in fretta
It states that the context of the question is such that a yes or no answer is in error and should not be given. Unask the question is what it says.
Is it hard?'Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.
In a sense, he said, it’s the student’s choice of Quality that defines him. People differ about Quality, not because Quality is different, but because people are different in terms of experience.
Impatience is close to boredom but always results from one cause: an underestimation of the amount of time the job will take.
If you get careless or go romanticizing scientific information, giving it a flourish here and there, Nature will soon make a complete fool out of you.
I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you're trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try not to force words to com. T...
I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is no point in sleeping.
His work was just barely passing by academic standards at this time, but this wasn’t because he wasn’t working or thinking. He was thinking too hard, and the harder you think in this high country of t...
Classical understanding is concerned with the piles and the basis for sorting and interrelating them. Romantic understanding is directed toward the handful of sand before the sorting begins. Both are...
But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides.
Aretê implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency...
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
The competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth
The art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind.
Poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.