Quantity Quotes

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

It's quantity, not quality.

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

What appeared to the earlier physicists to be the constant quantity of heat is nothing more than the whole motive power of the motion of heat, which remains constant so long as it is not transformed into other forms of work, or results afresh from them.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.