Quality Quotes
Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot.
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.
Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.
Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.
It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.
When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there.
This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy.
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.
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.
The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.
So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating.
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.
It's not the victories that count to me. It's the quality of how you deliver your losses and the quality of how you deliver your victories.
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity—even among the college-educated.
Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.
Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.
It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.
The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.
The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.
My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.
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.
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.
Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.