Quotes About Quality

When we desire to lead men to God, we must not simply overthrow their idols. In each of these images we must seek to discover what divine quality he who carved it sought.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

Always start with the freshest ingredients.

We've been trained by Industrial Age marketers to believe anything good is already on the shelf.

God will never stop helping us to become quality people. I promise you this. He will constantly help us to be our best when we walk in the light of truth, hope, and appreciation. Make yours a quality life, for you are important to the Lord and to us.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldnt be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

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

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh

Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?

After a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I've heard three truths from every mouth: (1) Writing is painful -- it's 'fun' only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality.

Unless you're a doubter and a worrier, a nail-biter, an apologizer, a rethinker, then memoir may not be your playpen. That's the quality I've found most consistently in those life-story writers I've met.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

It may seem like writing tests slows down development; in fact, testing does not cost, it pays, both during development and over the system's lifecycle.

The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement.

Will the quality of our attention change as we read on mediums that advantage immediacy, dart-quick task switching, and continuous monitoring of distraction, as opposed to the more deliberative focusing of our attention? What concerns me as

Quality begins when everybody in the organization commits to never sending rejects or imperfect information to the next process.

A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.

Excellence is the best ink with which to make your mark in the world.

The more polished a diamond the more valuable it is; the more tested a man the more refined he is.