Quotes About Quality

They're both black. I don't like to cut perfectly fine coffee with cream or sugar.

Because in my experience, patriotism, while a fine quality, can fuel quite a dangerous agenda if taken to the extreme.

My first and most enduring challenge as CEO was to dramatically improve the quality of both our individual thinking and our group discussions.

Silk laughed. You really should try not to let your knife do all your thinking for you. That's the one quality we find least attractive in our Cherek cousins. And we find this compulsion to make clever remarks which seems to overwhelm our Drasnian brothers now and then almost equally unattractive, Barak told him coolly.

There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

You know those mass-market cartridges, for the masses? The ones that are so bad they're somehow perversely good? This was worse than that.

It is important to avoid trying to create something that is average in all dimensions.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship?

What's good coffee taste like?" "Coffee." "What's the best coffee taste like?" "Good coffee." "What's the difference between good coffee and the best coffee?" "Advertising.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty.

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office and your quality. William Shakespeare

Cuando las manzanas están podridas, es difícil escoger.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

Ideally, poetry in translation should one day lead a reader to a reading of the poem in the original tongue. The poem in its native phonemes, we often forget, was primarily a poem, and a good one, presumably, if chosen for translation. A poem in translation should be faithful, if to anything, to this primary quality of the original—that of its being an effective poem.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

always followed, so far as I could see, the principle that military commanders should not be judged by results, but by the quality of their effort.

If it's bad, I'll hate it because I hate bad writing. If it's good, I'll be envious and hate it all the more.