Quotes on Quality

Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.