Quality Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

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.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

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

Quality has to be caused, not controlled.

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

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

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

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

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

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

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

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

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.

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

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

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

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.

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.

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

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

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

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.