Top 100 Quotes About Quality
#1. Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#2. Perceptiveness was not a quality I encouraged in those I spent time with.
Julie Johnson
#3. You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.
Jean-Marc Vallee
#4. Through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future - which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#5. Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
#6. The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
Noam Chomsky
#7. You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts.
Bruno Zheng Wu
#8. Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.
Frank Lampard
#9. The quality of Scotchness was a highly concentrated essence, and should always be diluted. As an ingredient it was admirable; neat, it was as abominable as ammonia.
Josephine Tey
#10. But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
Christopher Nolan
#11. Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works - Virginia Woolf
Tracie Podger
#12. The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.
Brian Tracy
#13. My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
Eric Clapton
#14. When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.
Barbara Rose
#15. We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.
Phil Crosby
#16. The quality of your thoughts and the state of your mind will define how happy you are as a person. Happiness in your life comes from the way you think!
Sanchita Pandey
#17. Though the sleepy, myopic, and rather bald-pated figure reflected in the mirror was precisely of such insignificant quality as to arrest decidedly no one's exclusive attention at first sight, its owner evidently remained perfectly pleased with all he saw in the mirror.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.
Letitia Baldrige
#20. The quality of TV drama nowadays is getting better and better. They've had to invent a new term for it: 'high-end television.'
Robert Carlyle
#21. Appreciate the people & good fortune within everyday life, this, is the quality of life, experienced.
Bob Armstrong
#22. The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#23. Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
William Vickrey
#24. A manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.
Margaret Deland
#25. It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable ... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities ... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Morris Graves
#26. Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.
Lydia M. Child
#27. When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
Mickey Hart
#28. The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which highlights customer satisfaction, workforce empowerment, and increased productivity, has come to symbolize America's commitment to excellence.
William J. Clinton
#29. The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.
Subir Chowdhury
#30. I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Khaled Hosseini
#31. Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
James Cash Penney
#32. Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.
Kevin Smith
#33. From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.
Iain H. Murray
#34. I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
Anthony Hopkins
#35. The decisions we make regarding vocation, child rearing, education, civic and church involvement, and other areas of life create changes that affect our marriage relationships. The manner in which couples process these changes will determine the quality of their marriages.
Gary Chapman
#36. Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#37. I would never diminish the quality of Hermes. Hermes can be an even rarer and greater quality business, if they ever wanted to work with us.
Bernard Arnault
#38. Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.
Mike Johanns
#39. I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.
Diego Della Valle
#40. I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.
Alden Ehrenreich
#41. Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.
Wynton Marsalis
#42. We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
Ferdinand Mount
#43. And sitting around the table on the fine-quality chairs and sofas were Magnus Bane, Jem Carstairs, Catarina Loss, and Clary,
Cassandra Clare
#44. There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#45. I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.
Sebastian Thrun
#46. The predominant quality of successful people is optimism ... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
Brian Tracy
#48. Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.
Doris Janzen Longacre
#49. The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
Brad Falchuk
#50. To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality time with my kids by baking or doing crafts, hiking, going to the theater and movies.
Andrea Navedo
#51. Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.
Tom DeMarco
#52. I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory,
John Bonham
#53. There was a rare quality about Nurse Grace's smile. It was the knowledge that sooner or later her smile would inspire some witty observer to say something around the lines of, "Every time you do this, an angel farts".
Sorin Suciu
#54. The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.
John Heider
#55. The Fed's policy choices can always be debated, but the quality and commitment of the Federal Reserve as a public institution is second to none, and I am proud to lead it.
Ben Bernanke
#56. I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.
Theo De Raadt
#57. I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.
Timothy Omundson
#58. The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.
James Jones
#59. Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.
Toni Morrison
#60. In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Paul Dano
#61. The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.
Daniel Kahneman
#62. I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.
Linda Ronstadt
#63. She repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music
Rebecca West
#64. I'm very, very lucky to be a working actor, but I've also been careful. I don't just take anything. 'Durham County' came to me. You have to look at the quality of work you do, and 'Durham' set the standard. I wait for things that keep me really interested.
Hugh Dillon
#65. I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
Jean-Marc Vallee
#66. It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
Ansel Adams
#67. The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
Ma Jian
#68. The Emmys seem like an entity unto themselves that have an agenda that sometimes corresponds to quality, sometimes doesn't.
Chris Bauer
#69. That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Smokey Robinson
#70. The quality of the thought that a person has got inside and sought
from outside is likely to decide the quality of the people that has been
brought into his life.
Anuj
#71. You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
John F. Kennedy
#72. A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.
Charles Dickens
#73. A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.
Tony Robbins
#74. If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.
Scott Adams
#75. It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.
Richard Koch
#76. I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.
John Hughes
#77. I'm a disciple of Raymond Chandler, who said in his essays that there's a quality of redemption in anything that can be called art.
Michael Connelly
#78. Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality.
Walter J. Phillips
#79. Mrs. Bevins smiled. "Okay. I'll cop. I think every teacher sees this sometimes. It's not simply intelligence or talent. It's a nobility of spirit. A quality which could make him great at whatever he wanted to do." We
Lucia Berlin
#80. The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.
Greg Schiano
#81. Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.
H.G.Wells
#82. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle.
#83. Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#84. the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity, some swagger of freedom denied to woman
Anais Nin
#85. We live in a world that has practically no appreciation for quality, tradition, or classiness, and in which people who can't spell even common words get to decide what survives. That
Bill Bryson
#86. A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.
Laura Schlessinger
#87. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.
Martin Sorrell
#88. Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.
Angela Carter
#89. As for opportunities, there is room for improved product quality and better service and raising our technology standard. In addition, we should have a certain share of the global market. However, we should consider new industries, such as resource development.
Liang Wengen
#90. Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.
Joseph Bernardin
#91. When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.
Francis Ponge
#92. Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
Brian Tracy
#93. I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
Garry Shandling
#94. Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Alexis Carrel
#95. Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
Bret Harte
#96. Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind.
Chauncey Guy Suits
#97. Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.
W. Edwards Deming
#98. Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard . . . very important.
J.K. Rowling
#99. There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#100. We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
Peter Diamandis
