Quality Quotes

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.

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.

Precision is not one of the qualities that comes out in my work.

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

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

Women, we tend to become whole people by venturing outside of the home, learning to aspire, to achieve, to deal with conflict - all these qualities that are wrongly called masculine.

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities.

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it-the quality of temptation.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light.

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

Don't give up before you get off your feet. Put the time in to learn what you can, build relationships, and develop quality content.

I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

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

I'm very particular about the pizza that I eat. Godfather's is still a premium-quality product, and I cannot always find that. It's got to be as good as Godfather's or I won't eat it.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

Let's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare.

We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

It's important to over-deliver on the quality of the books as far as depth and content. It's not worth it to cut out 50 pages just because it would be a little bit cheaper.

Whether it is drawing or painting, skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.

If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don’t compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he’ll be thrilled, because he took you there.

Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.

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.