Quotes About Quality

What we need is a bipartisan commitment to improving the laws on the books, to lower premiums, to improve access and improve quality of care.

In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder's Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

In my opinion, if you only show quality but no fighting spirit, you are half a player.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

World Cups and European Championships should feature the best teams. When you keep increasing the number of teams, you dilute the quality.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

My view is make Indian manufacturing competitive, and if it is competitive, it can serve customers or consumers anywhere.

As psychologists have shown in countless experiments, final estimates made this way are biased toward the anchor, so a low anchor produces a lower estimate than a high anchor does. That means the quality of the anchor is critical. Use a good anchor, and you greatly improve your chance of making a good forecast; use a bad anchor, get a bad forecast. Unfortunately, it is easy to settle on a bad anchor.

BAA understood, as so many others do not, that "lowest bid" does not necessarily mean "lowest cost," so rather than follow the common practice of hiring the lowest bidders, BAA stuck with companies it had worked with for years and that had proven their ability to deliver what BAA needed.

My answer to this was that the purest-bred cats made better mousers when they were fat than when they were starving; and in the same way honest craftsmen did much better work when they had plenty to live on.

pensaba que la higiene era, en una panadería, «más importante que la sal».

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

Charakter, das ist eine Zeitfrage. Er hält soundso lange, genau wie ein Handschuh. Es gibt gute, die halten lange. Aber sie halten nicht ewig.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are good ones that last a long time. But they don't last forever.

I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Dropouts are only one outcome of bad quality. Poor learning outcomes, low employability of graduates, low productivity, and consequent low wages constitute another set of outcomes.

You can learn an awful lot about a man campaigning with him, debating him and seeing how he reacts under pressure. You learn about the strength of his mind, but even more importantly, you learn about the quality of his heart.

Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

The quality of a person can be measured in how they answer--what seem like--the least important of life's questions.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.