WHAT QUALITIES ?

this may surprise some, but i call it discipline !! the definition of discipline i believe in goes as follows - "it is the ability to subjugate one's personal desire to shine for the larger good of the group working towards the group goal."

besides your responses, both the definition and my views are also open to debate and critisism.

Sir, i see it as a character, for the very reason that the offr exhibited integrity and loyalty as to oneself, his seniors and to the nation, subordinating personal interests to larger org goals, as you rightly said, and which is a "must have" for making a strong character. Discipline, i believe, is the second most sought after quality in the array. and therefore can bluntly be put as species of a character, which is relatively a larger term..

Quality is the Absence of Problems

Something doesn’t cause me any problems, and I have no complaints about it, it doesn’t get in the way of work or play, it’s always held up, never breaks, never dies, it’s “Old Reliable” – that’s a sure sign of quality, right?

Saying that quality is the absence of problems doesn’t go far enough, because it doesn’t address the big picture around problems: problems for whom? Take something like a software program – you can expect different people to be different kinds of users, with different needs that involve using the software with different goals in mind, and probably using different tools within the software.

Say the software has a function that most people will never need to use, like the old “convert the file to Sanskrit” command; if that function does not work, but most users won’t come across that failure, does the problem nonetheless exist?