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Quotes About Qualities

It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.
~ Frank Herbert
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. —LAW AND GOVERNANCE THE SPACING GUILD MANUAL
~ Frank Herbert
O bun? guvernare nu depinde niciodat? de legi, ci de calit??ile personale ale celor care guverneaz?. MaÈ™in?ria guvernamental? este întotdeauna subordonat? voinÈ›ei celor care-o administreaz?. De aceea, cel mai important element al artei guvern?rii este metoda de alegere a conduc?torului.
~ Frank Herbert
İyi yönetimler hiçbir zaman kanunlara dayanmaz, yönetenlerin kiÅŸisel niteliklerine dayan?r. Yönetim mekanizmas? daima bu mekanizmay? idare edenlerin isteÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r. Bu yüzden, yönetimin en önemli unsuru, liderleri seçme yöntemidir.
~ Frank Herbert
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
~ Frank Herbert
ViaÈ›a nu poate g?si motive care s? o susÈ›in?, nu poate fi o surs? de consideraÈ›ie decent? È™i reciproc?, decât dac? fiecare dintre noi este decis s?-i insufle aceste calit??i.
~ Frank Herbert
The most widespread individuality of writers consists, after all, in the fact that each conceals his bad qualities in an entirely particular way.
~ Franz Kafka
Like the cogency of the air after a thunderstorm! My qualities before me and overwhelm me, though I may not put up much of a fight against them.
~ Franz Kafka
Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.
~ Gwendoline Christie
Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.
~ Tom Araya
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time.
~ Alex Guarnaschelli
When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.
~ Jamie Hyneman
She was everything he avoided—youth, innocence, inexperience. And she had everything he wanted—guts, wisdom and compassion.
~ Robyn Carr
In Central and Southern Africa, the ability to detect witches was also believed in several places to be inherent in chiefs, as one of that concentration of semi-mystical qualities that gave them the right to lead. In
~ Ronald Hutton
Man cannot get beyond his true nature. He may indeed by means of the imagination conceive individuals of another so-called higher kind, but he can never get loose from his species, his nature; the conditions of being, the positive final predicates which he gives to these other individuals, are always determinations or qualities drawn from his own nature – qualities in which he in truth only images and projects himself.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
The right fist rested on the pommel of his plain long sword, which, contrary to the fashion of the time, had no name. Cromis, whose lips were thin and bloodless, was more possessed by the essential qualities of things than by their names; concerned with the reality of Reality, rather than with the names men give it.
~ M. John Harrison
The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
there is something profoundly wrong with the way we make sense of success. What is the question we always ask about the successful? We want to know what they're like—what kind of personalities they have, or how intelligent they are, or what kind of lifestyles they have, or what special talents they might have been born with. And we assume that it is those personal qualities that explain how that individual reached the top.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. And
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying. It
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Those three things — autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward — are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk's patience, a Warrior's courage, a Child's imagination.
~ Sharad Vivek Sagar
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.
~ William Maxwell Aitken
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
~ Anne Frank