Quality Gurus And Their Quotes

#1. Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?

Tarryn Fisher

#3. Plato may have denied the existence of ideal forms in this world, but Plato never saw a Viking ship.
(Scientific American, February, 1998)

John Hale

#4. I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery.

Crowder

#5. People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

Laozi

#6. Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

Mick Jagger

#7. When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when you don't feel that all-encompassing joy, it must be that something is wrong with you. I think it's dissatisfaction that the expectation was different than the reality.

Jessica Valenti

#8. If I were asked to say the most important things that lead to a successful life, I should say that, first of all, was integrity - unimpeachable integrity.

Charles M. Schwab

#9. I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

Cheryl Hines

#10. The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. I would think I drive most hitting coaches crazy. During one single at-bat I used six different stances on six pitches. Oh yeah, I also struck out. So what do I know?

John Kruk

#12. For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

Matt Taibbi