Quality Quotes - Page 40

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

A good idea has self-expanding qualities. It stimulates those who see it to add to it.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.