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Quotes About Quality

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
~ Leo Rosten
The copy editor looks for inconsistencies in content (does your character have blue eyes in Chapter 1, and green eyes in Chapter 30?
~ James Scott Bell
Self-publishing is a volume business. The more quality (key word!) work you put out there, the better your chances of an increasing income stream. How good are the chances? Better than if you put all your hopes on one or two books. Don't fall into that trap.
~ James Scott Bell
Expressions of gratitude were the "most consistent significant predictor of marital quality.
~ Jancee Dunn
It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.' 'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.
~ Jane Austen
If a book is well written i would find it too short.
~ Jane Austen
Pride,' observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, 'is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
~ Jane Austen
If a book is well written i always find it too short
~ Jane Austen
C?ci a fi natural? era pentru o fa?? dr?gu?? calitatea prin care spiritul ei devenea tot atât de atr?g?tor ca fiinÈ›a ei.
~ Jane Austen
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
~ Jane Austen
There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well
~ Jane Austen
Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.
~ Jane Austen
on my part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
~ Jane Austen
I gave 2s. 3d. a yard for my flannel, and I fancy it is not very good, but it is so disgraceful and contemptible an article in itself that its being comparatively good or bad is of little importance. I bought some Japan ink likewise, and next week shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
~ Jane Austen
If a book is well written,I always find it to short.
~ Jane Austen
Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.
~ Jane B. Reece
Reality is so constructed that each individual seeking such fulfillment does so not at the expense of others, but in such a way that the quality of life is increased for all.
~ Jane Roberts
I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'
~ Katherine Jenkins
I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
~ Cameron Mackintosh
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.
~ Ruggiero Ricci
Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.
~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Unlike what most people think, entrepreneurs are not special people who know how to do special things that others don't. Entrepreneurs can be made, because we're all born with the potential - that special human quality - to create.
~ Michael Gerber
What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
Manchester City seems to have unlimited spending restraint and are attempting to have all-star quality at each position - two deep. That will be hard to beat.
~ John W. Henry