WORDS OF WISDOM - Q + R

 

Q

 

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.

 

Quantity has a quality all its own. (Stalin)

 

Quitting is not a success strategy. You can’t quit your way to the top.

 

Quitting is not the same as failing.

 

R

 

R & D – Rob and Duplicate

Radical Obsolescence-Not Evolution.

Rage, rage at the dying of the light.

Rahm: 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.

Raising money is a contact sport. Direct, repeated contacts are a must.

 

Rank and yank.

 

Rapport is no substitute for credibility.

 

Rapture becomes you.

 

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.

Reagan used to say that freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.

 

Real antagonism is based on love, a love that has not recognized itself.

 

Real art is communal and active.

 

Real artists ship.

 

Real eyes realize real lies.

 

Real failure is when the data tells you that you are doing the wrong thing and you keep doing it anyway.

 

Real insight comes from outside.

Real job security lies in creating value.

 

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

 

Real leadership is a balance between intensity and consistency.

Real political work is the intentional, strategic accumulation of power in service of a defined end. It is action in service of change, not information in service of outrage.

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.

 

Realizations occur, related without splendor or epiphanies.

 

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)

 

Recipes create meals and cooks; they don’t create chefs.  (Map – Compass)

 

Recognition, like money, like power, is not evenly distributed.

 

Recognizing your faults doesn't mean you lack self-esteem. It shows you have self-awareness.

 

Recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.

 

Rediscover wonder.

 

Redo and Renew

 

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.

 

Registering as an independent is like telling a charitable fund-raiser that you want to help by sending good thoughts.

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.

 

Reinvention never ends.

 

Relationships are a function of proximity.

 

Relationships, and life, has limits and possibilities.

 

Relationships aren’t supposed to be easy; they’re supposed to be honest.

 

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.

 

Relief is the most powerful emotion. 

 

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, every single day of your life, the people you love could be gone tomorrow. Life is very fragile. You can’t count on ever having a lot of time left.

 

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

 

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 to play your whole movie — not just the clip of your latest stumble on repeat. 

 

“Remember when” is the lowest form of conversation.

 

Remember, where there is no solution, there is no problem.

 

Remember why you started.

 

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

 

Renewals are business, terminations are personal.

 

Renown requires deeds.

 

Repetition is a convincing argument.

 

Repetition is critical for memory.

 

Reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

 

Resilience is a muscle.

 

Resistance to Redmond is not futile – it’s just too often feeble.

 

Respect in a family is about fear of the consequences.

 

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.

 

Respond with intention rather than regret.

 

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 best taken, not given.

 

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

 

Resting and vesting 

 

Restraint and mercy were always strangers to me.

 

Resume virtues versus eulogy virtues (Brooks)

 

Retail is detail.

 

Retire now, but don’t quit working.

 

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.

 

Rich or poor, it's nice to have money.

 

Rich people buy luxuries last while poor people buy luxuries first.

 

Rickrolling: You troll someone on the internet by linking to the music video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” 

 

Ride someone else’s rails.

 

Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.

 

Ride sharing is the tobacco of the gig economy

 

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.

 

Risk is the true cost of aggressive objectives.

 

Rituals are critical and necessary forums for us to express emotions and feelings that we could not otherwise do.

 

Rock ‘n’ roll can’t change the world, but it can change a person and that’s as good a place to start as any.

 

Rock ‘n’ roll comes down to myth – there are no facts.

 

Rock ‘n’ roll is an attitude, it’s not a musical form of a strict sort. It’s a way of doing things, of approaching things. It’s a way of living your life. 

 

Role models, not runway models.

 

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.

 

RPA – Robotic process automation

 

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

 

Rules cannot take the place of character.

 

Run through walls.

 

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.

 

Running a show is like being beaten to death with your own dream.

 

Russia: a gas station masquerading as a country (John McCain)

 

Russian dolls: if you hire people smaller than you, you become a company of dwarfs; if you hire people bigger than you, you become a company of giants.