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#28 DFQ

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What is Styleware?

“Fashion passes. Style remains.”
- Coco Chanel.

Styleware is new. It’s a software package devoted specifically to helping the brainuser choose a world-class style that is compatible with being a PTV-free thinker. When it comes to thinking and behaviour, what can be more important than style?

Style A Strategy for Behaviour

A style is a strategy for behaviour. A person’s style determines not only what that person will allow himself or herself to do, but also the way he or she will do it. “It’s nice to be important,” says Roger Federer, Tennis Champion of the World, “but it’s more important to be nice.” And, it is.

Style is that intangible quality about behaviour that leaves a more lasting impression than the behaviour itself. Leaders, like Coco Chanel, Julius Caesar, Pope John XXIII, Eva Peron and Nelson Mandela are remembered as much for their personal style as for their specific actions.

Your Personal Style

Style provides a framework for daily thinking and daily behaviour. Your personal style shows the way you have positioned yourself in life, reflects your personal life strategy, and makes it quite possible to predict the way you are likely to behave in situations.

A loving gentle woman who treats herself and others with respect is unlikely to begin suddenly and inexplicably behaving like a Salome. A Scrooge is unlikely to start suddenly playing ball with the kids or to join Big Brothers — but, even a Scrooge can change!

Changing Your Style

You can’t hide your personal style. A single action may or may not go unnoticed but your behaviour patterns are impossible to hide. Repetition attracts attention. Your pattern of behaviour is an exhibition of your personal style just as the pattern of your personal opinions is a loud advertisement of the state of your mind.

But, if you’re not happy with your personal style, there is no law that says you have to live with it. You can simply change it. People are doing this every day. Style is a matter of personal choice, once you come of age. It is independent of background, education, or income; it has much to do with thinkingthe way you choose to deal with information–in order to deal with situations.

You can choose the personal idiom within which to live your life, just as you can choose the TV programs you wish to watch, the friends you wish to mix with, the clothes you wish to wear, the attitudes you wish to adopt or the Web sites you wish to visit and the things you choose to say on your blog.

Changing is simple once you make the decision. Yet making the decision could take 20 years! It requires an act of will. Not changing, of course, is the decision to keep the style you currently have.

The style of the Clever Brainuser can most readily be described by QRH which stands for the balance among these characteristics: Quality, Recognition, Humour.

The QRH style is contemporary and cool but has a taste of what used to be called noblesse oblige.

Your Virtual Board of Directors

When it comes to changing your style, it is very useful to have a clear view of the changes you wish to make and just how you’d like to see yourself. Changing is easier if you have a model or a picture or a coach – someone to give you guidance. For my own guidance, I use my personal group of virtual mentors, my Virtual Board of Directors.

To my Virtual Board (which is happy to meet in my mind whenever I want them to meet) I am free to appoint, as a non-paid Director, anyone I choose. I’ve had members from the present or from the past or from a future not yet a reality. I choose board members for different reasons.

I’ve had them for speech coaching, for dress, for conversation, for decision-making, for wit, for compassion, for looks, for stimulation, for provocation, for encouragement or compassion, for sentimental reasons and for inspiration.

For example, at different times over the years, seats on my Virtual Board have been held by Cicero, Nastasia Kinski, Jean de la Valette, Major Terry Hayes DFC, Julius Caesar, Saki, Audrey Hepburn, Professor George Gallup, W.C. Fields, my father, the Prince of Wales, Dame Elizabeth Murdoch, Fra Martin Luther, Antonio Carlos Jobim, my grandmother, Prince Talleyrand, Pope John XXIII, Brian Ferry, Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, George Costanza, Professor Richard Dawkins FRS, Musashi, Roger Federer and many others whose names I needn’t mention.

I’ve even had to do the occasional excommunication.

These have been some of my personal favourites and from whom I have received much advice, support and guidance – free of charge and on-call anytime, any place. You can operate your Virtual Board along the lines of a thought experiment.

Appointing Your Directors

The point, of course, is to choose your own Directors because you admire some aspect of their style and you want to emulate that aspect, in your own way, so you need their advice to do so. Other people have told me they use similar strategies and have chosen mental advisers for their own development.

If you wish, you can simply read a good biography of your potential style directors and if it satisfies you can appoint them to your board. It’s also great fun to do!

Q-Quality

When it comes to the subject of style, the clever brainuser is one who always tries to positively upgrade a situation from its current state to a better state. In other words, you are making a deliberate effort to improve the quality of the situation, the quality of the way in which the information is arranged.

Quality is Adding Value

Quality is important. As a clever brainuser you’re concerned with adding value to the situation. The point is not whether at any particular moment in time you are successful. What is far more important is the overall style, that is, the deliberate policy of always being concerned with improving the value of the situationthe quest for quality.

Contrast this with the dumb ‘whatever-I-can-get-away-with’ attitude. Quality is a matter of choice, a matter of style. Only by understanding the process of adding value will we be able to understand the key to productivity and solve what appear to be ‘economic’ problems.

The Habit of Quality

Quality is better. Quality is improvement. Quality is general excellence. The habit of quality is the habit of finding a better way, a better possibility, a better view, a better choice, a better alternative, a better outcome, a better attitude, a better opinion, a better life.

If you cannot find a better alternative in a situation then you cannot add value to the situation. That’s why CVSTOBVS, the switch to a better way of looking at a situation, is a skill or strategy that is central to the habit of quality.

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DFQ#28:

Your Famous Quote

If you were to be quoted on the subject of Quality what would be your Famous Quote?

Make up your quotable quote on Quality and post it:


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335 Responses to “#28 DFQ”


  1. Jin Says:

    Quality is commitment to excellence.

  2. Phil Sampson Says:

    Value and quality are both individual perceptions similar in all respects and yet different to each and everyone of us!

  3. Nicholas Says:

    Quality… Is improvement, step by step by step.

  4. Jax Gibb Says:

    Quality is the impression you leave on someone from when you came in contact.

  5. Boon Says:

    Quality attracts acclaims.

  6. Arthur Says:

    “Quality is a never ending commitment to finding a better way”
    A J Waldock

  7. Solomon Gerber Says:

    Quality is something that when tested in any situation will lead to a positive response.

  8. lmd Says:

    Well you may have created a monster of your own design. x10

    1 qoute will not suffice. x10.

    I have cvs2bvs’d quotes from others

    1 ‘Quality is a dish best served in any situation’ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    2 ‘Ask not what quality can do for you, but what you can do with quality’ JFK

    3 ‘I have quality, therefore I am’ Descartes

    4 ‘A current situation justifies quality’ Machiavelli

    5 ‘We came , we saw and we used quality’ Caesar

    6 ‘Go ahead situation, make me some quality’ Dirty Harry.

    7 ‘My situation, my situation some quality for my situation’ Shakespeare

    8 ‘Seek and ye shall find quality’ Bible

    9 ‘May quality be with you , always’ George Lucas

    The one I will run with.

    10 ‘Quality and quantity need not be mutually exclusive’ Me.

  9. Stanislava Says:

    Life with quality is a life with sense & purpose!

  10. John Burns Says:

    Quality defines the person but the person defines quality.

  11. harvey Says:

    Quality, defines style

  12. Goitse Says:

    Quality is the lifeline of life….

  13. Anthony Says:

    Do everything as if you where teaching yourself how to do it all over again

  14. Danae Says:

    Quality is the mind’s longer term appreciation of the residual flavour of the detail, however broad or narrow the focus.

  15. al Says:

    Quality it’s a core value,it’s worth every effort.

  16. jake Says:

    a daily habit of quality,finding a better way, adding value, leads to a full future of better outcomes

  17. murali Says:

    The quality of one’s life is not determined by material possessions or one’ status in life, but rather by those characteristics that inspire others and inspire one to dedicate his life in service to others.

  18. FK Says:

    Quality matters, other things may not.

  19. Rob Davie Says:

    Quality can only be achieved by focused intent.

  20. Greg Says:

    Want Quality relationships work or personal, then project Quality thoughts and actions. The world is your mirror.

  21. Bella Peiffer Says:

    In many aspects of life, quality is more important than quantity.

  22. moh nasir Says:

    Qualitty could be safity

  23. Anthony Says:

    Quality is worth waiting for.

  24. Jaime Says:

    Quality is about excellence, creativity, innovation and adaptation.

  25. Clive Pilley Says:

    Kaizen (改善?), Japanese for “improvement”, or “change for the better” refers to philosophy or practices that focus upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering, game development, and business management.

    The mindset that is inherent in this philosophy embodies the quest to do it better. I saw a Morris Elite from the 60′s in the local car park – what a unsafe tinny piece of junk compared to a car that rolls off the production line today.

    Amazing to think that it was a philosophy brought to Japan by an American W. Edwards Deming that was not recognized in his own country – once again the US education system flunks

  26. Greg Says:

    Quality is a good friend of Honest and Noble.

  27. Anil Singhee Says:

    Quality is a standard one achieves , and it always has a scope of improvement.

  28. Derek Says:

    Quality is a persistent consistency.

  29. peter Says:

    “if something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well”
    I was told that by my parents.
    I became perfectionistic about some things though, and have had to learn to back off it with others.
    So I’m reminded of a saying of a recently deceased friend: ‘don’t let great get in the way of good’

  30. Moncho Says:

    Once you pursue improvement, quality won’t be a big problem.

  31. Manon Says:

    quality… everyday a little bit more me

  32. anthony bertini Says:

    Quality is not bigger or best. it is open, generous and constantly improving

  33. Frank Says:

    Your reputation is determined by the quality of your actions.

  34. Janie Says:

    Not every one can see Quality

  35. Ian Says:

    Ultimate Quality can never be achieved. There is always a better Quality.

  36. Marisa Says:

    Quality is a value add that outweighs what you receive in return.

  37. Todd Wolf Says:

    Smart is what smart does.

  38. natalia Says:

    A better quality of our behaviour and our products is the better qualty of our comprehension of the initial sense and our presence.

  39. Craig Says:

    Quality is persistent greatness whilst seamlessly adapting into the current environment.

  40. Donald Quigley Says:

    When it comes to Quality, the best understanding of anything and everything as it exists, is simply where we must begin in order to expand our appreciation of its true and fuller potential.

  41. Walter Edey Says:

    Quality is the relentless drive to be a better person tommorow than you were today.
    Quality is seeking and immitating the best in others.

  42. Paul Says:

    People recognize and want the highest quality, when they see it

  43. Darren Says:

    I can’t define quality, but I know it when I see it. Not quite original but close enough for me today.

  44. Carol Says:

    Quality draws people in and leaves them wanting more.

  45. Kevin snr Says:

    Quality breeds life…

  46. Kevin Conyers Says:

    Quality is the last thing to cut…

  47. Nathan Whanga Says:

    Quality is a breath of fresh air after a lifetime of suffocation.

  48. Yvette Says:

    Environments that add value to everyone are ace

  49. Neville Says:

    Quality remains long after price is forgotten.

  50. Maylene Says:

    Quality is not about amounts or time or things that can be measured it is about authenticity in thought, intention and action

  51. Jeff Says:

    Quality is never having to say you’re sorry.

  52. Martyn Says:

    Quality becomes visible when not present.

  53. Joseph Says:

    Quality is something which can be measured objectively, but interpreted in only the most subjective of manners possible.

  54. Kane Says:

    Quality is a habitual expression

  55. newbie Says:

    “The Quality you produce in your own life is what shows your true face and constitute your true nature”

  56. panchasheel Says:

    THink quality think CQRA

  57. S S Abi Says:

    “Quality is like a pure water, everyone desires it; but those that get it are those that qualitatively and quantitatively work for it” – S S ABI.

  58. Goitse Says:

    Quality is the default benchmark!!!

  59. Vladislav Says:

    Quality is what better fits to what we want and what we need

  60. Trev Says:

    Quality begins with your state of mind, too see good in others, to do your best and to give your time and experience to children.

  61. Tsevi Says:

    Quality is better. Quality is improvement. Quality is general excellence. The habit of quality is the habit of finding a better way, a better possibility, a better view, a better choice, a better alternative, a better outcome, a better attitude, a better opinion, a better life.

  62. Ted Zhou Says:

    Quality does not need to be ranked. It should be good enough to know that it exists but no, we have experts to do the thinking for us to gel quality into a figure or rank.

  63. Patrick Says:

    When nothing can be added or removed that would enhance the project, object or concept.

  64. clem Says:

    I have always thought this kind of thing was beyond my reach. I have enjoyed meeting people with this gift. They seem to make everyone feel they are special. I can’t believe I can also have this power to enable me to make a person feel at ease. Now I don’t see it as a gift any more but plain common sense.
    Quality can and will be achieved

  65. Denis Says:

    Quality is style that never goes out of fashion, you may not always recognise it – but you recognise it’s absence-quality elusive but we all know it when we see it there something of the creator in it beyond being mechanical. It has spirit or soul in it …

  66. Moez Says:

    Quality is what elevates something to an art.

  67. Denis Says:

    Quality is better

  68. Muriel Says:

    “If anything is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well. Whether it be cleaning toilets, giving a speech, or simply doing nothing”.

    “It is better to have a few of something good than to have lot of something mediocre”.

  69. Mosaid ELNEJAR Says:

    Quality is the never-ending process of doing things in a better way.

  70. maralee Says:

    Quality is reflecting rather than reacting.

  71. kenton Says:

    Quality of what specifically? To whom, when, and where, and how?

  72. Judy Says:

    Quality has to become an impulse that only comes from disciplining your mind to think outside itself.

  73. Eileen Says:

    Quality is an attitude.

  74. Judy Says:

    Quality is always recognised.

  75. Sarfraz Akram Says:

    Quality always win over quantity.

  76. Denis Says:

    Quality is style that never goes out of fashion, you may not always recognise it – but you recognise it’s absence.

  77. Carolyn L Burke Says:

    Quality shows in the thoughtful care taken in the act of creating.

  78. Adi Liem Says:

    Quality is something better than yesterday.

  79. ebenezer Says:

    Quality is never ending process,and never fades

  80. Angel Burba Says:

    Quality is essence of a job well done and a reflection on our efforts to work towards the grand and noble.

  81. Nenna Says:

    Quality is a never ending process, and never fades

  82. Rocky Says:

    Quality is seeking the best in all things. Do this and you will always be going from cvs to bvs.

  83. jack Says:

    “Never mind the quantity it’s the quality that counts”

    Where democracy encourages majority rule and frequently represents the lowest common denominator (LCD); quality represents the highest common factor (HCF)

    “Quality is the cream on the milk; it is the quality which rises to the top of the quantity”

  84. Jason Says:

    Quality assures power.

  85. Graeme K Says:

    Quality survives scrutiny.

  86. Jazz Says:

    Quality is everlasting.

  87. McLytton Says:

    Quality is a virtue; like brevity it is the soul of wisdom.

  88. Dicky Says:

    quallity is the result of fine training from something

  89. Baard Rosvik Says:

    We have all experienced the joy of good quality and the lasting irritation of poor quality, but why is it so hard to deliver quality.
    Does short term gains derived from poor quality overshadows the long term? May be quality boils down to ” do to others as you would like others do to you”

  90. Maureen Says:

    Quality is the result of settling for the best.

  91. Erik K. Dzordzordzi Says:

    If you were to be quoted on the subject of Quality what would be your Famous Quote?

    “Quality is Style and it has Competitive Value in the Market Place” It is only the quality and style we adopt in life that will truly guarantee our true happiness for the value we gives in service or product will define our individual uniqueness. Each thinker has its own Quality and Style.

    Make up your quotable quote on Quality and post it:
    “Quality is Style and it has Competitive Value in the Market Place”

  92. jj Says:

    quality is the essence of you

  93. Hoyt Says:

    Quality is a state of mind!

  94. harvey Says:

    the essence of ones style must surely be quality

  95. Joseph G Fernandez Says:

    Quality for me is the ‘touch’ – like in “the Joseph touch” in everything I even merely turn my attention to. Arrogance? Please forgive me Sir I am indeed your most humble servant. You encounter me you will have to go away having experienced “the Joseph touch”. My constant effort will be to improve that “touch”.

  96. arthur Says:

    If I were to be quoted on the subject of quality, my famous quote would be… “Quality is constant and never ending improvement”

  97. Peterb Says:

    Quality in anything is relative to the Quality in ones’ self.
    Know your best Quality, your outstanding gift. Cultivate it.
    All people could have achieved eminence in something if only they had known what they excelled at. Some excel at judgement and others at courage.
    Identify your key Quality and apply it at double strength. Hey maybe, X10..

  98. Harman Says:

    Quality is what you can bring to the table in everything you do, say and think.

  99. Mike Biggs Says:

    Quality is an enduring process, not a destination, nor an outcome.

  100. Paul H. Says:

    Quality is never finished.

  101. Ben Ford Says:

    Quality recognises that the absolutes of your truth and my truth are the same, and really doesn’t mind that you aren’t ready to realise this yourself.

  102. George K Says:

    Quality starts with a bvs = a better view of the situation, product or service.

  103. ellipsis Says:

    Quality : We have the time and resources to repeat things and rectify deficienceies but not the time to produce a Quality product once.

  104. harvey Says:

    quality,is unique to provide it or not, that is the question

  105. Brigitte Says:

    Quality is a way of life. Live it daily.

  106. fran Says:

    Quality is no regrets, respect others, the ability to shine

  107. Irial Says:

    ‘When Price is forgotten, Quality remains’…

  108. Mayeen Ul Ahsan Says:

    Quality can be seen in many ways; to me it is value creation.

  109. Eugene Baker Says:

    While I agree with quality and it is better, improvement etc I struggle because I am always striving for better, improvement etc and therefor never happy with the CVS. It is as if when I reach the BVS I then treat this as my CVS and again looking for a BVS. Where does it stop????? Can we not be happy with the CVS as it seems fit for us for surely constantly trying to find a BVS will will not allow us to live in the now. Hope this makes sense.

  110. Eileen Says:

    QUALITY inspires respect

  111. Baard Rosvik Says:

    you will never be disapointed of good quality!

  112. ellipsis Says:

    Quality: one more time, near enough is not good enough.

  113. Julian Says:

    Quality is in the eye of the beholder

  114. arthur Says:

    “Quality means constant and never ending improvment”

  115. Natig Says:

    Shelley Says:

    August 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
    “Quality attracts quality
    Terence Says:

    July 3rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
    Quality is how you are when you are not being watched.

    and The quality of paradigme of your life levels should be clarified

  116. Terence Says:

    Quality is how you are when you are not being watched.

  117. Lachlan Says:

    my old quote was certainly “average is great” – my quality quote now is a question, ” how can I serve more? add greater value? be more? do more? now, is this really the best I can do?”

  118. James Doran Says:

    Quality is a constant unflinching beacon. JMD

  119. Mike Biggs Says:

    Quality is a process; not an outcome.

  120. Don Micallef Says:

    Quality is Value, Service & Style

  121. mike Says:

    Quality is the elixir of life.

  122. jj Says:

    quality loves style

  123. jj Says:

    quality is the beauty that celebrates style
    quality nurtures style

  124. frankie Says:

    Quality is putting your best foot forward and to come out standing with a feeling of accomplishment. That is was the best that could be done in any given situation.

  125. Hoyt Says:

    Quality is not easely forgotten!

  126. Eyeh Says:

    Quality is an incremental re-learning of the best standard you are capable of

  127. Jonaku Says:

    The integrity of anything is the value it adds to the end-user.

  128. Steve Says:

    Quality should be an express of oneself, which those around you see, recognise and appreciate!

  129. Jiaming Tan Says:

    “Quality is life of a product in market”.

  130. Chris Says:

    ‘The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

    [Acknowledgement to Vince Lombardi]

  131. magie Says:

    Quality is a tangible energy that silently announces itself and gentley draws us close.

  132. Rogelio Carrillo Says:

    Quality is any interaction that satisfies the customer. Customer is the person, proccess or machine that uses the product of our activity.

  133. Andrew Says:

    The level of quality is set by the customer.

  134. afreerange Says:

    quality matters

  135. Graeme McLeod Says:

    Further, I fully expect those words to fulfil my intention for them ,to change someone’s CVS to a BVS….and become aware of the need for change.

  136. Graeme McLeod Says:

    QUALITY is the words of uplift, of upgrade ,of encouragement ,of realistic positivity that I can bring to any person ,or business, situation in the course of conversation.

  137. PANCHASHEEL Says:

    Knowledge, when incorporated in active living,leads to wisdom.
    Quality Knowledge
    Quality Action
    Quality Life
    Quality Person

  138. martin Says:

    Quality is not to be an act but an integral value.

  139. David Says:

    Quality is ongoing.

  140. Frank Paton Says:

    Quality is a habit of successful people which fulfills both the stated and implied needs of the recipients.

  141. Beatty-Anne Says:

    Quality thinking is the right balance of analytical, logical and creative thinking for the task at hand.

  142. Shan Guneratne Says:

    Quality is striving to be better than you are currently. This “better” can last untill you go to your grave!

    So basically continuous improvement which also ties in with CVSTOBVS!

  143. Trev Says:

    Quality is a way of not allowing repetition of previously made mistakes. This can be enhanced by leveraging this to find better ways to function.

    I really like the concept of an internal quality council that you can substitute members as required. This reminds me of the TV series Herman’s head, LOL.

  144. Daniel Says:

    “Quality is a never-ending journey to excellence.” – Oh! That’s already taken it seems.

  145. delain Says:

    quality needs to be a strict an fussy thing because there is one way to get it right an a googolplex ways to get it wrong

  146. sam Says:

    Quality must permeate.

  147. Shelley Says:

    “Quality attracts quality”

  148. Bryce Says:

    Quality is depth, not to be found in simplistic pronouncements like this one.

  149. joanna Says:

    Quality is what sets you apart and defines your individual approach to life.

  150. Neville Dean Says:

    There is nothing more expensive than meat you can’t eat.

  151. Shar Dalziel Says:

    Quality is knowing something has integrity, that nothing is missing

  152. Chris Says:

    Quality is art of simplicity in elegant solutions

  153. Carlos Trujillo Says:

    Quality its the oportunity of give the best of the best

  154. G McKeon Says:

    Only we know when it’s not quality we get a chance in life to correct that before it becomes real

  155. Steve Says:

    Quality is finding a better way, even when you don’t have to.

  156. Hector Says:

    Quality is the habit exceeding expectations.

  157. Kerrie Says:

    Quality is style beyond description…

  158. karl Says:

    Quality is the ongoing process of building and sustaining relationships by assessing, anticipating, and fulfilling stated and implied needs.

  159. linda Says:

    We communicate our own appreciation of quality in everything we say and manifest our own idea of quality in everything we do.

  160. Julie Says:

    Add a little quality to everything you do, say or give.

  161. Ross Says:

    Quality input + quality attitude = quality result

  162. Peter Says:

    “The interesting thing about Quality is that people tend to notice it by it’s absence.”

  163. Ron Says:

    Quality is a state of being achieved by combining value and attention to detail.

  164. Chris Says:

    Quality is not an act, its a Habit, a habit of improvement, or trying to improve or upgrade a situation.

  165. Erik Says:

    Our mental Quality define what we are, and how happy we become.

  166. clive Says:

    quality is something that is effective

  167. Carey Rudd Says:

    Quality is the best USP

  168. margaret Says:

    quality starts with a state of mind, an expectation that becomes reality and finally is a way of being, of doing.

  169. Hugh Simpson Says:

    Quality comes from doing what YOU do BEST!

  170. Ethann Says:

    Quality can often be about “less” rather than “more”.

  171. Simon Otter Says:

    Great quality is beyond expectations.

  172. Amanda Says:

    Quality endures.

  173. Saranya Kumar Banerjee Says:

    A best quality is a something that suits an individual’s needs.

  174. karisma Says:

    Quality is as quality does.

  175. xan Says:

    When you put quality into anything don’t worry about the income , just go forward and do another thing with quality …

  176. esselle Says:

    There is no end point on quality: affecting the quality of my thoughts will affect the quality of my day and of my life.

  177. Mike Lakeland Says:

    Quality is worth the investment

  178. Peter Says:

    Quality should be strived for but never determined to have been achieved

  179. TimY Says:

    “Quality” is the manifestation, through actions and thoughts, of the proper assimilation of accurate information winnowed through experience and adaptation into a personally meaningful journey.

  180. sharyn Says:

    The recognition of quality is always accompanied by a smile.

  181. Dave Says:

    Is Quality the destination, or the Scenery along the way?

  182. ashok gupta Says:

    Quality is delibearte ‘evolution’ using BVS constantly

  183. Peterb Says:

    Quality is not bold, but it is obvious, and is the product of care.

  184. Paul Says:

    Quality is the essence of a discerning intellect.

  185. Treasure Says:

    Excellence is determined by quality.

  186. Rabin Bangaar Says:

    Quality is the BVS one should always strive for

  187. Althaf Hussain Says:

    Commitment to CVSTOBVS is commitment to Quality

  188. Enoch Teddy Sabutey Says:

    Quality is dynamic so be part of the dynamism !

  189. panchasheel Says:

    Quality is not an end point, it is the practice of perceiving all of who you can influence and improving it to the greatest extent of your ability.

  190. Ben Says:

    To crack a walnut, a sledgehammer and a scalpel are equally useless. Quality is fitness to purpose, it is without excess, it is balance. its essence is found in elegant simplicity

  191. Pradeep Singh Says:

    “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. ”

    “When you’re out of quality, you’re out of business. “

  192. Sid Wales Says:

    It takes 5 years to earn a Quality Image – 5 seconds to lose it

  193. LJF Wolffe Says:

    “If they leave with a higher vibration than they had when they came in, then you have added Quality to their life. Keep it up!”

  194. Sandra Says:

    Quality is the “Je ne sais quoit” of life. Well thought out design. Goods carefully produced and displayed. Or “made to last”. you know quality when you see it!

  195. Mick Says:

    Quality is all about perception. Your quality and my quality may be different but it is still quality.

    Put a little quality in your day … actually … put a LOT of quality in your day. Live and love life the best that you can everyday and you will not only put quality into your own life but into others lives as well.

  196. Michael M Says:

    Too much QUALITY is never enough.
    There’s no such thing as bad “QUALITY”.

  197. Linda Says:

    for my life I treasure the quality not the quantity I have achieved

  198. john buchanan Says:

    Always be happy but never be satisfied with who you are, what you do and how you do it and live it

  199. Shirley Says:

    Quality is indefineable but recognisable – add it to your life!

  200. Emily Says:

    Quality is a thing that you can change to be better and better…

  201. Cristiana Garita Says:

    Quality brings others to their knees.

  202. mario Says:

    quality is a journey not a destination

  203. Edwin Says:

    Quality defines your state of giving.

  204. Helen Says:

    Quality is not about finding a better end, it’s about finding a better means.

  205. Dave Says:

    If you want quality oats you need to pay a quality price, but if you want oats that has already gone through the horse, well then you can have them a little cheaper… Ok, ok, i know i just borrowed someone elses quote, i just like it ok…

  206. frankie Says:

    if your going to do a job do it right the first time no matter the job.

  207. Terry Says:

    Quality is efficient in the short term, effective in the long term.

  208. martin reid Says:

    Quality is about creating and meeting a benchmark.

    Once that benchmark has been reached …raise the bar even higher!

  209. yashodhara topiwala Says:

    quality adds value to whatever you do.

  210. Sinclair McLay Says:

    If we’re going to meet – let’s meet on Quality Street !

  211. babette Says:

    Never compromise your own standards – look to your internal auditor

  212. milca b. Says:

    Better late than never !

  213. George Says:

    Having quality shoes that costs four times as much is infinitely better than having a hundred pairs of lower quality footwear that each cost much less.

    Usually the quality footwear lasts 4 times as long anyway …and are much more comfortable and useful the whole time.

  214. Carol Says:

    quality is the effort and endeavor that upgrades mediocrity

  215. jeremiah chin chee keong Says:

    Quality is a quantum leap from mediocre to excellence.

  216. Michael Says:

    Quality is not an end point, it is the practice of perceiving all of who you can influence and improving it to the greatest extent of your ability.

  217. Gibby Says:

    Quality is an entitlement not a bonus.

  218. David C Says:

    Although “quantity” contains many of the same letters and more of them (i.e. more quantity), “quality” is ‘lit’ as we can all see, whereas quantity only contains a ‘tit’.

  219. Julie Bungey Says:

    To apprepiate the quality of everything rather than the value of it

  220. catherine Says:

    I love Danny’s quote about being happily unsatisfied. I think I’m going to be quoting him on that!
    Quality improvement should entail no stress – analysis of current position and suggesting improvements should be part of daily thinking.

  221. patrick Says:

    To be quality conscious is to be always looking for the better way of doing things. To encourage others to seek personal excellence in their lives . To promote best practice techniques that will make life better for society at large. To be aware that life long learning leads to quality living. Knowledge, when incorporated in active living,leads to wisdom.
    Quality Knowledge
    Quality Action
    Quality Life
    Quality Person

  222. belladonna Says:

    Quality is the attention to detail in the smallest things, even in dusting behind the things on the top shelf!

  223. Brako Jones Says:

    Quality is to be happily unsatisfied

  224. Alex Says:

    Quality Starting,
    Quality Doing,
    Quality Noticing,
    Quality Thinking.

  225. Pete Says:

    The value of everything is determined by its quality.

  226. Frederick Says:

    Quality requires hardworking to come by.

  227. Danny Says:

    Quality is to be happily unsatisfied

  228. Andrea Says:

    I know it when I ‘see’ it .

    If I had to define it, I’d be rabbitting on for ages and anyone could tell I haven’t made the shift from a feeling to a thought/words!

  229. anthony Says:

    Antyony can’t spell

  230. anthony Says:

    to persue a better style is to persue quality, to persue quality is to persue virtue.

  231. tyrone Says:

    quality is the analysis to finding a better way

  232. Jeanette Says:

    The old saying “Quality not Quantity” is always a good one – Maybe a new one can be

    “More Quality rather than More Quantity”

  233. Heather Says:

    “Quality assurance” and “quality control” are about maintaining an acceptable standard. Real quality is in exceeding these standards.

  234. Rog Says:

    “The pursuit of quality consists in making sure that your best can always be improved.” (Rog, 2008)

  235. Will Says:

    At the end of the day we judge each other based on Quality.

  236. Kevin Gabriel Says:

    Shine with our QUALITY

  237. Susan Says:

    At the end of the day, Quality is always the best value.

  238. Jaime Says:

    At the end of the day, only quality matters.

  239. Andy Says:

    ———————*———————-

    Some people have the admirable aim of producing EQUALITY in the world, but the School of Thinking has the higher goal of producing E-QUALITY in its thinkers around the wwworld!

    ———————*———————-

  240. Rashmi Says:

    QUALITY: Change with time!!!

  241. Margarita Says:

    Quality is attention, appreciation of the importance and value of the moment or situation, of life, of existence.

  242. Christopher Hawkins Says:

    Quality defines the behaviour of everything, the level at which they operate.

    I’m mixing definitions of quality.

  243. John deChadenedes Says:

    Quality means doing whatever you do as if you were setting an example for all of the young people in the world to follow, and as if you were following the example of the most honest and courageous people in history.

  244. carole Says:

    Quality should be in the air around a person, as you move towards them you breath in that air and take a little away with you so you in turn can manufacture your own. In this way the more contact we all have with quality the more there will be quality on this planet

  245. Glenn Says:

    Quality is the journey.

  246. J. Kyle Howard Says:

    Quality is the true spice of life

  247. John Says:

    Excite and delight your customers

  248. Kevin Gabriel Says:

    QUALITY IS AN ATTITUDE TO SHINE

  249. Sandra Says:

    Quality is objective and neutral. The ingredients that each individual adds to ‘quality’ will determine who they are and what they stand for. I go back to my favourite mantra ‘Show me what you do and I’ll tell you what you think’. People’s actions will always demonstrate what value they have added to quality to create their own style.

  250. kofi Says:

    QUALITY IS A HABIT

  251. Big HB Says:

    Quality is like the sunrise, breath taking every time you see it.

  252. Charlie Says:

    What is quality? Quality is a view that is relative to the experiences of the individual. Quality is inherently neither good nor bad, we define good and bad and that, in turn, determines our individual measure for quality. Quality cannot be defined absolutely as the definition changes with each new experience.

    Have a good Day.

  253. Brian Lee Says:

    Quality is the unconsious delivery of an outcome that is consciously valued by the intended recipient.

  254. Joseph Says:

    “To achieve quality thinking you must transcend “What Is” as inescapable to “What Is Possible.” JAM

  255. Paul Valentine Says:

    “Quality is not an act” said Aristotle “it’s a habit!”

    Follow that!

    I will indeed, and please feel free to Quote me.

    The Eternal Quality of Love is that it is unconditional.

  256. paul Says:

    As you see, so you be. Improve your vision!

    P.S. There are some great contributions on DFQ 36. Well worth a scroll down.

    Or, if you have an hour or so to while away, go back to your day one of SOT.

    Re-read the original ideas that were presented to you, but more importantly, re-read your DFQs.

    After all, we have all been here for quite a while now, and you might just surprise, and even please yourself.

    SOT is fun.

  257. Janie Bell Says:

    Strive for top quality performances always

  258. Shosh Says:

    Always strive for a better quality in everything you think, say and do. It is the heart of the matter.

  259. Tony Says:

    A current level of quality can always become a better level of quality.

  260. Purk Says:

    Everybody has its quality….

  261. David Mackrell Says:

    Love what you do and so will the person you’ve done it for (even if that person is just you).

  262. Merrick Says:

    There is enormous satisfaction in making or doing something at a level of quality which you know is as good as you are able to make or do it. The fact that you did not take any shortcuts, and that you honoured the task by doing it well, will continue to satisfy you every time you see the object or see the results of the task you undertook.

  263. Peter Houlihan Says:

    Quality is the heart of the matter. At heart is quality. Without heart there is no quality

  264. Mary Says:

    Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.

  265. Jill Says:

    We can all do just a little better, add a touch of qualilty. And if we all just keep on doing that.. over and over, then, Wow, we will have created positive change!

  266. gerard Says:

    quality in diversity

  267. grant Says:

    Quantity is a poor mans quality.

  268. adriana Says:

    Can I improve upon my life’s work to date and attain a higher quality of life for myself and others?

  269. Srini Says:

    Quality can be likened to great works of art, it has its own niche
    which never wills to be surpassed.

  270. Dale Says:

    Only constantly striving for quality can lead to living a truly quality life.

  271. Robert Leonard Says:

    I wanted to change a word in my quote, after further thought.

    Quality is the blood, that keeps all moving.

    You can quote me or that one!

  272. Lien Says:

    Let quality be the objective for everything you do for why should you settle for anything less.

  273. James Says:

    Up the level that I’m already at. That’s a possibility.

  274. Natalie Says:

    Quality of thought and action are the the first steps in living a life of quality.

  275. V Says:

    Once you achieve the quality you desire it is important to then take it for granted

  276. Mark Langworthy Says:

    Quality is an attainable goal. We should always strive for the better way-the better possibility-the better view-the better choice-the better alternative-the better outcome-the better attitude-the better opinion- the better life.

  277. Merrick Says:

    Remember your quality may be someone else’s poverty.

  278. Raknith Says:

    If we do not attempt to improve our situation in an everchanging external environment, then that environment will eventually render us irrelevant.

  279. Jon Rice Says:

    quality is instinctively improving on the current situation

  280. Maurice Says:

    Quality is an approximation of state to an ideal reference point which can only be attained if everything is perfect.

  281. Robert Says:

    Give or reflect Quality and enjoy a feeling of Pride.
    Receive or observe Quality and merely be satisfied.

    Goals for “Quality” are to have Goals with “Quality”.

  282. George Kruszewski Says:

    Quality is remembered better than price.

  283. hi Says:

    Longevity.

  284. Michael Says:

    Quality: total commitment!
    Bringing out the very best in myself, and others
    in every situation.

  285. Peter Says:

    The insistence of quality in all endeavours allows the creator to have pride in being.

  286. Stylebro Says:

    “Quality is the spark of genius present in all of us.
    When quality is present, it is that spark in work or party clothes, expressing itself.”

    Quotable Quote from Stylebro- Friday 13th July 2007

  287. Fortino Says:

    “Quality is to choose the best BVS from a group of 10 BVSs”

  288. celestetara Says:

    Live and think a life of quality. Believe in quality not quantity!

  289. nancy Says:

    ‘Quality’ is giving the best you have at any point and improving on it as you are able.

  290. giel van lankveld Says:

    Quantity, whats quantity?

  291. Louise Says:

    Quality is the action, the thought that enhances life to higher level daily.

  292. Ann Christin Says:

    Quality is the importance you put on the best you can be, do and have.

  293. Mike Says:

    Q – quality
    U – underwritten
    A – artistically
    L – largely
    I – intelligently
    T – thoughtfully
    Y – youthfully

  294. Rae Says:

    Live Quality, BE Quality, obtain Quality, give Quality

  295. Denis Says:

    Quality speaks for itself . It’s either there or not . Quality IS.

  296. Paul Says:

    Quality is not what you make of it but of what it makes of you.

  297. pp Says:

    Quality speaks for itself; it requires no interpretation; it just ‘is’. Noticeable by even the most uneducated, it not so much speaks, but reeks …

  298. Darek Says:

    Quality-a relevant idea

  299. katherine symmons Says:

    Quality is surpassing the expectation, need or desire of others.

  300. April Says:

    Quality begins with how one defines it. Relevant questions would be along the lines of what would add value here, what would be most beneficial to all concerned?

  301. Marie Says:

    QUALITY

    “It’s better to have then to want”

  302. A Says:

    Quality is making the most out of every situation – living life to the full, not just ‘treading water’.

  303. Ginger Says:

    Quality is the construction of anything with such care that the creator would love it for himself.

  304. robert baker Says:

    When searching for quality, look for better, not more: benefits, not features: and simple, not complex.

  305. Morgan Says:

    1 piece of quality work is far better than 1000 pieces of subaverage work, put some time and effort into it and watch it blossom before your eyes.

  306. Ian Says:

    Quality is achieved when somethingis done with perfection style & finesse

  307. robin Says:

    Provide the best service you can each and every time. This will astound your customers and confuss your competitors.

  308. Henry Says:

    Quality is a gift.

  309. clay moreau Says:

    An attitude of gratitude is a Quality

  310. Eugene Baker Says:

    Quality is achieving the standards set by oneself.

  311. Reggie Says:

    Quality, in regards personal style, is the main identifying attribute of an individual’s character.

  312. Les Wade Says:

    You can deliver quality by giving of your very best.

  313. Peggy Durant Says:

    Quality is like a flower, perfect and precise with its own identity each and every time!

  314. DIana Gibson Says:

    Quality is the soul at work in the situation

  315. kevin Naughton Says:

    A life well lived is measured in terms of quality, not quantity.

  316. R Says:

    To have little is better than less but worse than to have much: Quality

  317. John Warner Says:

    To infuse one’s loving spirit into…

  318. liane Says:

    Quality of one’s efforts is the excellence each individual can give, if they so choose.

  319. Michael Says:

    Quality = better fulfillment from the heart

  320. kai Says:

    Quality is showing to yourself and others how much you value yourself and your life

  321. Paul Akintunde Says:

    Quality is the enduring value and authenticity imbued in any object, character or situation: a benchmark of sterling worth.

  322. gopi Says:

    another one -

    civilization is nothing by humankind’s incessant endeavour to upgrade the quality of what ever it creates.

  323. Chris Perkins Says:

    Quality is in the eyes of the beholder.

  324. gopi Says:

    Quality is a constant reminder to the fact that nothing is perfect, and everything can be improved with better application of mind.

  325. Bani Sodermark Says:

    It would be nice to have everything light, when everything fits and no one feels indebted to another.

  326. Andrew Goodall Says:

    Make a person beg for a fish and you feed them until they can escape, give a person a fish and feed them for a day, teach a person to fish and feed them for the rest of their lives.

    I see this as
    Fear – If you don’t do what I want you to do I won’t feed you
    Charity – Oh you poor thing here is a fish
    Friendship – Hi Mate, come and I will teach you how I catch fish, then you can teach me something

  327. Ross Hansen Says:

    The more information on which one bases one’s decisions, the better the Quality of the decision.

  328. Adam Says:

    My famous quote would be as follows…
    ” Do your absolute best with all your heart and you’ll be ok”.

  329. David Says:

    My famous quote would have to be attributed…

    Andre Godin: “The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action”.

    Kind of fits in with SOT – the need to raise the quality of my expectations!

  330. Heather Says:

    To be or not to be ~ now in that question you will find the quality!

  331. Nicole Says:

    Forget diamonds – Quality & Class are a girl’s best friends.

  332. Matt Birtwistle Says:

    I might not say a lot, but I give good quality!

  333. greg walters Says:

    Quality is providing the best possible solution fit, for the current requirement and the perceivable requirement.

  334. David Grugeon Says:

    There is always a better way; the way is to do better.

  335. LINDA MCCAY Says:

    Quality may not always be visable but it is always valuable.