Quality Quotes - Page 60

It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.

If human beings are losing every time, it doesn't matter whether they're losing to a conscious machine or an completely non conscious machine, they still lost. The singularity is about the quality of decision-making, which is not consciousness at all.

Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who just worked for four years on Terrence Malick's films. He did a lot of conceptual work to make the soundscapes in the jungle have this surreal quality, to blend these two films because a lot of the images are about this parallelism between the movies. The sound was very integral to fusing everything.

All men are born equally free.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

I have to say that I've always believed perfectionism is more of a disease than a quality. I do try to go with the flow but I can't let go.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and in almost every other country.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom of thought; the positive results that come from doubting that all the lessons are true... Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact, I can also define science another way: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love?

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz.