Quotes About Quality

let those surface issues go, to value content over form.

But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?

The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.

greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements.

the important thing, Jacques instructed me, was to get the pan hot as you could before adding the meat - that, and always give good wine to your butcher.

Tools that look glossy but shatter under stress are not good long-term value. Unix

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

Critical and radical thought will only bear fruit when it is blended with the most precious quality man is endowed with - the love of life

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

We try to make theories of our perception. We try to explain what was or is making repeated indents upon our senses, life. We rationalize and give something a name, a number, try to recognize a persistent quality to some element of sorrow, distance, feeling.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is—the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency.

What I have found in similar settings is that good leadership (for instance, on the part of head nurses who demonstrate a commitment to safety and to openness), together with a clear, shared understanding that the work is complex and interdependent, can help groups build psychological safety, which in turn enables the candor that is so essential to ensuring the quality of patient care in modern hospitals.

In fact, Joe Biden repeatedly reached out with words of kindness. That's a quality in politics that is vastly underestimated.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

To explain De Sica, we must go back to the source of his art, namely to his tenderness, his love. The quality shared in common by Miracolo a Milano and Ladri di Biciclette, in spite of differences more apparent than real, is De Sica's inexhaustible affection for his characters.

Ma non esiste una qualità che non abbia un costo. Più bella e rara la qualità, più alto il costo

And it was the same with the Black Cauldron movie—the book was ten times better.

We were not so great at what we did—or at least I wasn't—and I liked it that way: that no one seemed to care about the quality of any of this, any measurable greatness. We were tiny people, but our tininess was at times formidable.

All software you write will be tested—if not by you and your team, then by the eventual users—so you might as well plan on testing it thoroughly.

maintaining good regression tests is the key to refactoring with confidence.

A movie needs to have a must-see quality among the people you are targeting. Also, make movies at a responsible budget so that if you attract your core audience, and they show up in the first few weekends, the economics will work.

On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren't so formal.