Quality
assurance in a service business happens before production, not after.
Quality
has no fear of time.
Quality
has to be caused, not controlled.
Quality
is a choice that management can make.
Quality
is a race without a finish line.
Quality
is long remembered after cost is forgotten.
Quality
is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere
effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise
choice of many alternatives.
Quality
is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
Quality
is never your problem. It is the
solution to your problem.
Quality
is no longer a critical determinant in a buying decision.
Quality
is not an act. It is a habit.
Quality
is remembered long after price is forgotten.
Radical Obsolescence-Not Evolution.
Rage,
rage at the dying of the light.
R: It’s not about intimacy; it’s all about the immediacy of the advice. No one has his ear except those he reaches out to from time to time. (MA)
Raise the ante of effort and concentration in order to clear your mind of trivialities.
Rapport
is no substitute for credibility.
Rat in a
draw.
Rat-like
cunning.
Read
between the lines.
Read less, know more
Ready and able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Real
antagonism is based on love, a love that has not recognized itself.
Real art
is communal and active.
Real
artists ship.
Real
insight comes from outside.
Real
knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
Real
power is when you’re doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best
it can be done.
Reality
is okay, but as a lifestyle, I find it too confining.
Reality
is something you rise above.
Reality
seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality
is therefore abandoned.
Reason
can be the ultimate defense mechanism.
Reason
has nothing to do with it. I'm a
scorpion, it's my character.
Reasons
and excuses are made up because the realities are just too painful. (B. Diller)
Nighttime:
Reflection; Hope; Longing and Guilt
Refusing
to accept things as they are – overcome the daunting power of the status quo
Refusing
to look at unpleasant facts doesn’t make them go away.
Regret
for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we
did not do that is inconsolable.
Regulation
lags innovation.
Reinforce
success, abandon failure.
Relationships,
and life, has limits and possibilities.
Relationships
that do not end peacefully do not end at all.
Relief is
the largest reaction that I have to a project that’s well received. I don’t celebrate. I don’t have victory parties. I simply feel relief.
Religion
causes as many problems as it solves.
Relaxing
does no good if you feel guilty about it.
Release
early, release often.
Religion
is only the most refined version of human ignorance.
Religion
poisons everything.
Rely not
on the teacher, but on the teaching; rely not on the words of the teaching, but
on the spirit of the words; rely not on theory, but on experience.
Remember
that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Remember
the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.
Remember:
there are always other jobs.
Remember
to live.
Remember,
where there is no solution, there is no problem.
Remember
that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Remember
your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.
Renewals
are business, terminations are personal.
Renown
requires deeds.
Repetition
is critical for memory.
Resentment
is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Resistance
to Redmond is not futile – it’s just too often feeble.
Respect
in yourself the oscillations of feelings: they are your life and your nature; a
wiser one than you made them.
Respond,
don’t react.
Responses
to threats and unpleasantness are faster, stronger and harder to inhibit than
responses to opportunities and pleasures.
Responsibility: tension between weight and opportunity.
Responsibility
is proportionate to opportunity.
Restraint
and mercy were always strangers to me.
Retail is
detail.
Revenge
is sweet.
Reverence
of selfishness.
Reverse
Pyramid of Knowledge
Reverse
Roadmap. Plan backwards. Set your goals and then work backwards from them to
see how to achieve them. You may determine that there is NO path to get you
there.
Revolutions
are never instigated by men of action, but by men of thought.
Rich
enough to have never touched an appliance.
Rich
man’s war, poor man’s fight.
Ride the
horse in the direction that it’s going.
Riding a
bike: If you’re moving, however slowly,
you don’t fall down. But if you try to
stand still, you fall.
Righteousness
doesn’t stand a chance against the imagination.
Rigs,
rednecks & royalties - cowboystan
Rings and
jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Risk is a
randomness whose probability can be determined.
Uncertainty implies unknown and perhaps unknowable probabilities.
Rituals
are critical and necessary forums for us to express emotions and feelings that
we could not otherwise do.
Ro ck ‘n’ ro ll
can’t change the world, but it can change a person and that’s as good a place
to start as any.
Ro ck ‘n’ ro ll
co mes do wn
to myth – there are no facts.
Ro ck ‘n’ ro ll
is an attitude, it’s no t a musical fo rm o f a
strict so rt. It’s a way o f do ing
things, o f appro aching things. It’s a way o f
living yo ur life.
Rough
work, honorable or not, takes the life out of us.
Rouse
tempers, goad and lacerate, raise whirlwinds.
Routine
is a link with the past.
Routinization
of anything is self-immolating. It
deadens alertness, attentiveness, imagination, energy and reaction time.
Rudeness
is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
Rules
cannot take the place of character.
Running a
company based on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view
mirror.
Running
around like a lost dog at a meat market.
