Quality Quotes

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Because my business life is so busy, my home is really my sanctuary. That is where I reflect and spend quality time with my girls.

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

The most important issue is clearly not the quality of treatment and care of these prisoners; rather it is the perplexing issue of what we now do with them.