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Quotes About Quality

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
~ Robert Greene
And at the core of this intensity of effort is in fact a quality that is genetic and inborn—not talent or brilliance, which is something that must be developed, but rather a deep and powerful inclination toward a particular subject.
~ Robert Greene
The perfect victim is the person who stirs you in a way that cannot be explained in words, whose effect on you has nothing to do with superficialities. He or she often has a quality that you yourself lack, and may even secretly envy
~ Robert Greene
Second, you must convince yourself of the following: people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life.
~ Robert Greene
Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
Mingling frames from the broodnest with frames from honey supers also causes problems. The material in the cells and the bees walking on this darkened wax will darken the honey stored in the combs and add bits and flavors of what was there before, reducing the pristine quality of the honey you want to harvest. The bottom line: Don't mix frames used for honey with frames used for brood.
~ Kim Flottum
Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Up to a point go for quantity rather than quality. Most people would rather have two glasses of ordinary decent port than one of a rare vintage.
~ Kingsley Amis
Smørbrød og øl, tarvelig men godt. Hør, jeg synes det skal være litt utsøkt!
~ Knut Hamsun
I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.
~ Soledad O'Brien
The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.
~ Antony Flew
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.
~ Lee Iacocca
It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.
~ Cornel West
I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this.
~ Mos Def
Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another.
~ Mildred Blaxter
When anyone can produce dreck or publish gibberish, and not only get away with it but be celebrated for it, the discipline is no longer a discipline, and it will get no respect.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
I have nothing but respect for HBO.
~ James Gandolfini
Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows... But...nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel.
~ Yogi Berra
Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.
~ Yu Hua
Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
~ Yukio Mishima
Dreams, memories, the sacred—they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desting, tear d touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.
~ Yukio Mishima
today's world, information and attention are critical assets. It is crazy to give up your attention for free, and to get in exchange only low-quality information. If you are willing to pay for high-quality food, clothes, and cars—why aren't you willing to pay for high-quality information?
~ Yuval Noah Harari