quality

topic posted Thu, November 20, 2003 - 3:39 PM by  David
It's all about Quality.
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David
  • Re: quality

    Sun, December 7, 2003 - 1:02 AM
    I've never been satisfied with Pirsig's 'Quality'- it sounds good, it hangs together if you accept quality is some thing that we all recogise, but I can't quite accept that.

    the book is one my my favorites, still- and Lila wasn't bad all by it's lonesome.
  • Re: quality

    Mon, July 12, 2004 - 1:51 PM
    Maybe it's just my personality, but the concept of quality really spoke to me. It's not about what you do as much as doing it well. Caring about the process, the method. Feeling it, understanding it. My nature is to approach most things that way, and I'm noticing lately that when I get really frustrated with someone, it's very often because they don't have the same approach.
    • Re: quality

      Mon, July 12, 2004 - 4:50 PM
      Shit this is my favorite subject, quality. Too bad its a lost art. Quality is a watchmaker who actually makes a watch, a photographer who makes his own paper, a chef who grows his own vegetables. Quality is about being one with what you do.
    • re: caring

      Sat, July 31, 2004 - 8:37 PM
      You know, this little book really spoke to me too. I found myself re-reading and re-reading passages in the book. It's funny how I'd say "Oh, yea, i understand now, I see ..." and then a few pages later (like it was some great dream that I had with all of the answers in the universe and then *black fog* it's all gone and forgotten) I'd say "what did that say again?" ... let me flip back.

      It's not that I thought this book was the 'bible' and was going to give me answers. I was just sort of *shocked by how much truth was injected in some of those pages.

      And, like Sebastian, I am sometimes disappointed in people now because i realize their 'un-quality-like' behavior. I know i'm judging but it's like I am now acutely aware now of how they don't care about the parts of the motorcycle.


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