300 Quotes on Quality

• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intention, effort, intelligence, and skill.

  Author: John Ruskin

• Success is not measured by the amount of tasks completed, but by the quality of relationships cultivated in the process.

  Author: Megan Smith

• Success is not defined by quantity, but by quality of experiences.

  Author: Lauren Woods

• Success is not defined by the quantity of opportunities, but by the quality of choices made.

  Author: Sophia Greene

• I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

  Author: Rob Zombie

• If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

  Author: Emile Zola

• What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• 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.

  Author: Dwight Yoakam

• But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

  Author: Minoru Yamasaki

• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

  Author: William Wycherley

• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

  Author: Frank Wright

• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Author: Frank Wright

• A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

  Author: Niklaus Wirth

• I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

  Author: Malcolm Wilson

• In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

  Author: Douglas Wilson

• Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

  Author: Elie Wiesel

• Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

  Author: William White

• Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

  Author: Theodore White

• That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said "But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously," and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Author: Wim Wenders

• Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

  Author: Paul Wellstone

• If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Author: George Washington

• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Author: Booker Washington

• If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

  Author: David Warner

• Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

  Author: Jon Voight

• What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

  Author: Joan Vinge

• I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

  Author: Leonardo Vinci

• Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

  Author: Carl Vechten

• I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

  Author: Boris Vallejo

• A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

  Author: John Updike

• I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

  Author: Sun Tzu

• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

  Author: Dale Turner

• People do eventually see something that's quality.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.

  Author: Gene Tunney

• Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

  Author: Claire Trevor

• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Author: Lee Trevino

• The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  Author: James Thurber

• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• My worst quality is impatience.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Author: Tertullian

• Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

  Author: Ellen Terry

• People sort of take it for granted, but the more you see of the media world the more you appreciate a paper like the Times where its family continues to invest in editorial quality and I think it's the truly is the best paper in the world.

  Author: David Talbot

• We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  Author: William Styron

• I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality.

  Author: Erich Stroheim

• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.

  Author: George Stigler

• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

  Author: Pamela Stephenson

• It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

  Author: Debbie Stabenow

• I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• Time control directly influences the quality of play.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

  Author: Merrie Spaeth

• There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  Author: John Sousa

• Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

  Author: Ian Smith

• Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

  Author: Chad Smith

• One must strike the right balance between speed and quality.

  Author: Clare Short

• Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

  Author: Richard Sheridan

• So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

  Author: William Shatner

• From cell phones to computers, quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care.

  Author: John Shadegg

• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  Author: George Santayana

• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  Author: Abdus Salam

• Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy.

  Author: Mark Russell

• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  Author: John Ruskin

• The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

  Author: Cesar Romero

• We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

  Author: Roy Romer

• One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.

  Author: Roy Romer

• The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

  Author: John Rockefeller

• 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.

  Author: Smokey Robinson

• Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

  Author: Cavett Robert

• The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.

  Author: Jay Roach

• So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

  Author: Cathy Rigby

• There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

  Author: Giovanni Ribisi

• We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

  Author: Orville Redenbacher

• I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

  Author: Herbert Read

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Author: Herbert Read

• And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

  Author: William Ramsay

• A half marathon is a good way to have a bit of fun and race against those girls and learn a bit more about them.The world half marathon is a world championship at the end of the day and it's important. I've win it twice and it's a quality event.

  Author: Paula Radcliffe

• I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

  Author: Theo Raadt

• In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

  Author: Theo Raadt

• I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

  Author: Paul Prudhomme

• It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending.

  Author: Lewis Preston

• What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

  Author: Lawrence Powell

• Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

  Author: John Polanyi

• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Author: Plato

• Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

  Author: Rick Pitino

• Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

  Author: Robert Pirsig

• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Author: Alessandro Piero

• You see, one of the best ways to assure quality radiologic procedures is to require a basic level of education and skill for the people responsible for performing these procedures.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

  Author: Charles Pickering

• I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because it was a sequel. Then I read the script and was excited by the relationships and its mystic quality.

  Author: Daniel Petrie

• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Author: Tom Peters

• The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.

  Author: George Peppard

• Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

  Author: James Penney

• 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.

  Author: Charles Peirce

• If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

  Author: George Patton

• It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment. That gives me emotional well-being that is important to me.

  Author: Robert Patterson

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  Author: Mandy Patinkin

• For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  Author: Walter Pater

• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

  Author: Walter Pater

• Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.

  Author: Ed Pastor

• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Author: Major Owens

• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  Author: Major Owens

• Beauty is less important than quality.

  Author: Eugene Ormandy

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  Author: Origen

• If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.

  Author: David Obey

• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

  Author: Brandy Norwood

• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  Author: Gale Norton

• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  Author: Adela Nicolson

• We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

  Author: Ben Nicholson

• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

  Author: Corin Nemec

• Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

  Author: Corin Nemec

• Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.

  Author: John Negroponte

• I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

  Author: David Neeleman

• In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

  Author: George Murray

• I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

  Author: Rupert Murdoch

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

  Author: Yousef Munayyer

• Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

  Author: Johannes Muller

• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  Author: Kate Mulgrew

• We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

  Author: Ferdinand Mount

• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  Author: Vic Morrow

• I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

  Author: Robert Morris

• You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

  Author: Richard Morris

• Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  Author: Samuel Morison

• Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

  Author: Roger Moore

• Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

  Author: Bernard Montgomery

• We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow.

  Author: Marc Molne

• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

  Author: Moliere

• What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.

  Author: Katherine Moennig

• The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

  Author: Art Modell

• It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

  Author: Bryan Miller

• At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

  Author: Mark Millar

• Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

  Author: John Milius

• It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.

  Author: Agnes Meyer

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  Author: Ralph Merkle

• Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.

  Author: Gian Menotti

• Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

  Author: Herman Melville

• There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

  Author: Herman Melville

• If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

  Author: George Mead

• My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

  Author: Cathy McMorris

• But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

  Author: John McEnroe

• Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

  Author: Mark McCormack

• The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.

  Author: Henry Mayhew

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Author: Andre Maurois

• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Author: Marlee Matlin

• Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

  Author: Andrea Martin

• What is the quality of your intent?

  Author: Thurgood Marshall

• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

  Author: Garry Marshall

• The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

  Author: Don Marquis

• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

  Author: Ed Markey

• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  Author: Orison Marden

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  Author: Orison Marden

• We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

  Author: Bernard Mandeville

• Quality survives.

  Author: Leonard Maltin

• Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

  Author: Robert MacNeil

• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

  Author: Mary MacLane

• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  Author: George MacDonald

• In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

  Author: Lydia Lunch

• Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

  Author: Derek Luke

• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  Author: James Lowell

• I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

  Author: Pierre Loti

• I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

  Author: Sophia Loren

• The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

  Author: Lavrenti Lopes

• You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.

  Author: Herbert Lom

• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  Author: James Loeb

• The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

  Author: Oliver Lodge

• A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

  Author: Franz Liszt

• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

  Author: Anne Lindbergh

• Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

  Author: Blanche Lincoln

• Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

  Author: Ron Lewis

• Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.

  Author: Gottfried Leibniz

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  Author: Walter Legge

• Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

  Author: Nigella Lawson

• Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

  Author: Isidore Lautreamont

• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Author: Bill Laswell

• I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

  Author: Gary Larson

• Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

  Author: Doug Larson

• Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

  Author: Rick Larsen

• 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.

  Author: Frank Lampard

• I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.

  Author: Guy Laliberte

• I've always done food that can work in a set time frame. The message I'm trying to get across is, it doesn't have to take three days to do this. With planning, you can do a lot and really have quality food every day.

  Author: Emeril Lagasse

• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Author: Ray Kroc

• The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.

  Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

• Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to.

  Author: Richard Krajicek

• 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.

  Author: Michael Korda

• We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

  Author: Rem Koolhaas

• I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.

  Author: Frank Knox

• The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

  Author: Robert Klein

• Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

  Author: Neil Kinnock

• You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

  Author: Don King

• The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

  Author: Ron Kind

• As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  Author: Sue Kelly

• I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

  Author: Catherine Keener

• It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

  Author: John Keegan

• What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

  Author: Philip Kaufman

• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

  Author: Yousuf Karsh

• I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

  Author: Paul Kane

• If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

  Author: Gil Kane

• Tolstoy may not be showing that much of Russia at that time even. It's hard to tell. You tend to associate the quality of the period with what's lasted - what's still good. And that quality becomes the whole period.

  Author: Donald Judd

• Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.

  Author: Ashley Judd

• It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls.

  Author: Ashley Judd

• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Author: Tim Johnson

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  Author: Lara John

• Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  Author: Steve Jobs

• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Author: Gertrude Jekyll

• The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

  Author: Robinson Jeffers

• But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  Author: Valerie Jarrett

• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

  Author: William James

• In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

  Author: Arne Jacobsen

• On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

  Author: Arne Jacobsen

• There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

  Author: Jane Jacobs

• You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

  Author: Derek Jacobi

• When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

  Author: Robert Jackson

• We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

  Author: Ian Jackson

• We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

  Author: Paul Ince

• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

  Author: John Hutton

• Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.

  Author: David Hume

• I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.

  Author: Jane Hull

• Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

  Author: Arianna Huffington

• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

  Author: Samuel Horsley

• And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.

  Author: Hedda Hopper

• I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

  Author: Bell Hooks

• As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• Hawthorne has given us a tradition that some people refer to as Yankee Magic Realism, and I do think there is a certain quality to the landscape that definitely leads into the dark woods.

  Author: Alice Hoffman

• Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Author: Napoleon Hill

• Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

  Author: Jack Herer

• I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.

  Author: Natasha Henstridge

• My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

  Author: Natasha Henstridge

• When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

  Author: Jim Henson

• Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

  Author: Dave Heineman

• I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs.

  Author: Dave Heineman

• One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

  Author: William Hazlitt

• The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

  Author: Henry Hazlitt

• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  Author: J. Hayworth

• There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

  Author: Eliza Haywood

• With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

  Author: Owen Hart

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