Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity.Shashi Tharoor
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.W. Edwards Deming
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.Leo Tolstoy
The quality of your life is directly related to how well you regulate your internal state.Andrew Huberman
There are too many distractions in this life for quality of thought, and it's quality of thought, not quantity, that counts.Nikola Tesla
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.Douglas Martin
The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever has the final cut.John Gruber
Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need.Ken Rockwell
We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.Simon McBurney
You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.Elon Musk
The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.Tony Robbins
Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.Denis Waitley
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.Benjamin Franklin
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.Giorgio Armani
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.Niklaus Wirth
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.Michael Korda
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.Aristotle
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.Robert M. Pirsig
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.Steve Jobs
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.Steve Jobs
When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.Steve Jobs