Quality Quotes - Page 29

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

I've met Obama a few times, and I think Obama's a quality human being, but I think that he finds himself in a position where your actions are largely dictated by things out of your control. I'm not giving him a pass for not being more courageous, but I do think the entire system needs an overhaul and taking money out of politics would be a really good first step.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its own qualities of timbre and texture, to its own personal vibration. So just as directors and cinematographers (even those who will never make abstract films) have everything to gain by refining their knowledge of visual materials and textures, we can similarly benefit from disciplined attention to the inherent qualities of sounds.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.