Quotes on Quality

I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.

Author: Amy Adams

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Author: Theodor Adorno

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.

Author: Steve Albini

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Author: James Allen

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

Author: Herb Alpert

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Author: Henri Amiel

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

Author: Michael Apted

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Author: Aristotle

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Author: Aristotle

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Author: Aristotle

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

Author: Giorgio Armani

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

Author: Julian Assange

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Author: Marcus Aurelius

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

Author: Alan Autry

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.

Author: Irving Babbitt

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.

Author: Irving Babbitt

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.

Author: Joe Baca

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.

Author: Charles Bass

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

Author: Beck

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Author: Samuel Beckett

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Author: Max Beerbohm

Modesty is my best quality.

Author: Jack Benny

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Author: Jose Bergaman

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Author: Jason Biggs

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Author: William Bligh

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

Author: Hassanal Bolkiah

America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

Author: Kit Bond

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

Author: Jan Bont

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Author: Anatoli Boukreev

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Author: Jimmy Breslin

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Author: Jonathan Brown

My favourite quality workout is 6 X 5 minutes with 1 minute rest between each.

Author: Jonathan Brown

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

Author: Frank Bruno

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Author: William Burroughs

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Author: Jeb Bush

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

Author: John Cameron

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Author: Willa Cather

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities - because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Author: Joseph Chamberlain

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Author: William Channing

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

Author: Lee Child

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Author: Noam Chomsky

There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.

Author: Steven Chu

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Author: Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Author: Winston Churchill

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Author: Marcus Cicero

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Author: Ramsey Clark

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right.

Author: Hillary Clinton

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Author: Nick Clooney

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Author: Cyril Connolly

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Author: James Cooper

Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains.

Author: Jerry Costello

In celebration of this Earth Day, I encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in the improvement of water quality in our Nation's lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries.

Author: Jerry Costello

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Author: Stephen Covey

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

Author: Alan Cox

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

Author: Phil Crosby

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Author: Phil Crosby

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.

Author: Timothy Dalton

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Author: Robertson Davies

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

Author: Danielle Dax

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

Author: Rosa DeLauro

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Author: W. Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Author: W. Deming

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

Author: Morarji Desai

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

Author: Jared Diamond

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.

Author: Norm Dicks

The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Author: Charles Eames

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Author: George Eliot

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Author: Ralph Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Author: Ralph Emerson

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.

Author: John Engler

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Author: Brian Eno

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

Author: Ron Fairly

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

Author: Brian Ferneyhough

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

Author: Bryan Ferry

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Author: Ralph Fiennes

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Author: Robert Fitzgerald

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Author: Henry Ford

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Author: Henry Ford

The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Author: Robert Fripp

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

Author: Robert Fripp

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Author: Erich Fromm

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

Author: Jerry Garcia

If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

Author: Pat Garrett

Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

Author: Sunil Gavaskar

The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

Author: Timothy Geithner

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

Author: Greg Ginn

There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing.

Author: William Glasser

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

Author: William Glasser

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.

Author: Alma Gluck

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

Author: Trisha Goddard

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Author: Johann Goethe

It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things.

Author: Rube Goldberg

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

Author: Richard Grasso

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

Author: Eva Green

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

Author: Jasmine Guy

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Author: John Hall

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Author: Lasse Hallstrom

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

Author: Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

Author: William Hazlitt

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

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

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

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

Author: Eric Hoffer

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

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

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

Author: Hedda Hopper

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

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

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

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

Author: Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: William James

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

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

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

Author: Steve Jobs

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

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

Author: Ashley Judd

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

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

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

Author: Catherine Keener

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

Author: Don King

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

Author: Neil Kinnock

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

Author: Robert Klein

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

Safin, in his way, is very talented. It is a joy to watch them play; it is tennis of a very high quality.

Author: Richard Krajicek

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

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

Author: Chantal Kreviazuk

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

Author: Ray Kroc

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

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

Author: Gary Larson

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

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

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

Author: Anne Lindbergh

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

Author: Franz Liszt