Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Practice quality, and you get better at quality. But quality takes time, so by working solely on quality, you end up losing something else that's important - speed.
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.