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Quotes About Quality

In art, the best is good enough.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
~ Alice Waters
Something needn't be large to be good.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
~ Penn Jillette
It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.
~ Richard Avedon
I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.
~ Colin Powell
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.
~ Rushworth Kidder
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
~ Steve Wozniak
Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.
~ Ruth Simmons
You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
~ Dev Anand
I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.
~ Weegee
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored
~ Vikram
When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
~ Warren Buffett
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
~ Frank Gehry
I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
~ Bryan White
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.
~ Judith Weir
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
~ William Matthews
But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.
~ Daphne Guinness
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
~ Leslie Caron
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
~ Norton Juster
The best is good enough for me.
~ Ted Solotaroff
But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
~ Roy Barnes