Quality Quotes - Page 4

Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such fashion that they looked upon insolence as democracy, lawlessness as liberty, impudence of speech as equality, and licence to do what they pleased as happiness, but rather a polity which detested and punished such men and by so doing made all the citizens better and wiser.

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.

A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts.

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

Proactively bring passion to everything you touch, to everything you do. No matter what task is in front of you, bring as much enthusiasm and energy to it as you possibly can. Bring your full attention, your full presence, the Godlike quality that each of us has within, to every task in your day.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

Quality control starts and ends with training.

I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.