Quality Quotes - Page 111

People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon this planet.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both.

One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.