Quotes About Quality

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time.

everyone had access to good-quality plates, bowls and jugs,

When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so much an impediment in his speech as a quality of his soul, a sort of vestige of early childhood innocence that he had never lost. Each consonant he could not pronounce appeared to be another instance of a hardness of which he was incapable.

An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.

It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it.

When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown.

A lot of experiences that we have in the world are torn, broken, hard experiences, and in broken, difficult, lonesome experiences you earn a quality of light that is very precious. I often think of it as quarried light.

François Mitterrand is credited with saying that the most essential quality for any statesman is indifference

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

To study one good master till you understand him will teach you more than a superficial acquaintance with a thousand: power of criticism does not consist in knowing the names or the manner of many painters, but in discerning the excellence of a few.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives… Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Quality is more important than quantity as it is always the result of intelligent effort

The first and absolute condition of the thing's ever becoming saleable is, that we shall make it without wanting to sell it; nay, rather with a determination not to sell it at any price, if once we get hold of it. Try to make your Art popular, cheap –

vegetables in your restaurants are not so good." "Better in Russia?" Reynolds asked, interested. "I should say so," Nadya said. "Also better in France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, in Italy, in Israel.

Is it good? It ain't Shakespeare, but then, Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus , so you tell me.

That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show.

There's that old saying: Fast, cheap, and good, you get to pick two. The two you just picked are fast and good. Cheap has just left the building.

People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don't serve up crap.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.