Quotes About Quality

Good quality is less costly because of more accurate diagnoses, fewer treatment errors, lower complication rates, faster recovery, less invasive treatment, and the minimization of the need for treatment. More broadly, better health is less expensive than illness.

The fundamental problem in the U.S. health care system is that the structure of health care delivery is broken. This is what all the data about rising costs and alarming quality are telling us. And the structure of health care delivery is broken because competition is broken. All of the well-intended reform movements have failed because they did not address the underlying nature of competition.

At the most basic level, competition in health care must take place where value is actually created.

U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations.

THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access to care.

Capitalists say that all that matters is the bottom line. In fact, all that matters is the top line... the excellence and quality of the human race.

Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.

Love is the most attractive quality in the world. And it lies at the heart of Christianity.

Weight loss through calorie restriction and an even more vigorous exercise program failed to improve telomere length, so it appears that the active ingredient is the quality, not quantity, of the food eaten.

we're living longer, but we're living sicker.

Are Americans living longer now compared to about a generation ago? Yes, technically. But are those extra years necessarily healthy ones? No. And it's worse than that: We're actually living fewer healthy years now than we once did. 20

In other words, we're living longer, but we're living sicker.

Foods are not so much good or bad as they are better or worse. All I'm saying is that unprocessed foods tend to be healthier than processed ones. Think of it this way: Eating almonds is healthier than drinking almond milk.

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and of itself—what happens before and what happens after are often what give it its savor.

Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.

Life is too short to waste your time with bad books.

As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.

High-quality food is better for your health.

You are what what you eat eats.

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

By invoking and receiving energies of consciousness of a higher quality from transpersonal levels, we can in turn affect the vibratory quality of the substance of our personality fields and contribute to their evolution, thus perfecting our instrument of expression.

Go to the grocery store and buy better things. Buy quality, buy organic, buy natural, go to the farmers market. Immediately that's going to increase the quality of the food you make.

Most software is designed for the development lab or the testers in the Quality Assurance (QA) department.