Quotes About Quality

It's all schlock," the impresario railed. "Chazerei for pubescent sub-mentals.

Certain people uplift you; others pull you down. Certain people give you strength; others sap your energy. Choose carefully. Good friends, like neighbors, are an endless benefit, a treasure. Bad relationships and bad friends can ruin a lifetime. Following the path of the superior person permits a natural section that will find you only with the best-quality friends.

Hence, in the vicious challenge, it has turned out to be very basic for each organization to concentrate on marketing other than concentrating on great quality and brand picture.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

A good idea is a good idea and my work should compete on its own merits, not based on the size of my fan base.

Stories are like wine; they need time. So take the time. This isn't a hot dog eating contest. You're not being judged on how much you write but rather, how well you do it. Sure, there's a balance — you have to be generative, have to be swimming forward lest you sink like a stone and find remora fish mating inside your rectum. But generation and creativity should not come at the cost of quality. Give your stories and your career the time and patience it needs.

Real success or victory is measured by the quality of that very process of attention and mindful involvement, practice, and commitment.

There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people—whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins. Personal

And then Julia's thinking about the internet and blogging; how everyone with a keyboard thinks they can just bang out articles no problem, never mind research or quality control.

I'm cashmere, for God's sake," it grumbles. "I deserve better than Rubbermaid.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles, and what counts first and last in art is quality; all other things are secondary.

Mexicans have a fundamental belief in the doomed quality of humankind's finest schemes. Why hurry fate?

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

The critics have always been slow to appreciate the true quality of the personal content of Joyce's work - a fact which has led to a serious misunderstanding of the fundamental double-talk inherent in his symbolic language.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

O pensamento é uma qualidade própria da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

O pensamento é uma qualidade da alma, que a si mesma se multiplica

Give me one man from among ten thousands, if he be the best.

Money does not guarantee excellence. Although university salaries and faculty quality are correlated, the correlation is far from perfect.