Quotes About Quality

Sir, Saint-Savin replied, the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers.

How could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes?

of schooling) with the gross national income per capita—but (not surprisingly) it correlates highly with the average per capita GDP, making the latter variable about as good a measure of the quality of life as the more elaborate index.

Practice what we preach • Nothing less than ecstatic customers • First class for less • Honor intellectual capitalists • Everyone an entrepreneur • Never, ever, ever give up

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived — not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

It is a charming quality of the happiness we inspire in others that, far from being diminished like a reflection, it comes back to us enhanced.

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Back then I used to say that I despised the new coinage "quality time," that it was yuppie parents' smiley-face equivalent to lawyers' Ã¢â'¬Å"billable hours.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.

Pop music will never be low brow.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from binding.

I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults and when I say 'great for adults ' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

Because we're the best: we use all organic.

It may surprise you to hear that good coffee made in shabby locations still tastes like good coffee.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy providing for quality, affordable health care and keeping our nation and communities safe.

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital

certification of what constitutes "merit" and "quality." Nevertheless, and even granting the digital divide, there is a generational shift in the kinds of learning happening by those both living above the poverty

And he exercised uncommon tact with his men, meeting them where they stood, rather than demanding that they always be the ones accommodating themselves. I have learned over time that this quality is rare in any man, even more so in a leader.

El reconocimiento de marcas reduce las opciones; y para tomar la decisión final se añade el principio del segundo precio menos elevado. La base lógica es que si uno ha oído hablar de una empresa, seguramente es porque sus productos son buenos.