Quality Quotes

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

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

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

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

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

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

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

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.

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

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.

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.