The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve. – Magdi Yacoub
I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It’s about your life, the quality of your life. – Philip Seymour Hoffman
Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment. – Derek Bok
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I’m approaching the Lear hoop. – Derek Jacobi
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. – Charles Bass
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn’t only new ones who suffer from that. – Greg Egan
We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. – Daniel Kahneman
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard’s quality and not detract from it. – Derek Bok
I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, ‘I am a superhero,’ but the truth is that we’re all human, and that human quality is really important to bring. – Molly Quinn
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. – George S. Patton
Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. – Chad Smith
I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real. – China Mieville
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. – Niklaus Wirth
I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas’ shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion. – Daniel Boulud
I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, ‘I can’t do that.’ But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, ‘Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.’ – Ellen Barkin
The first half of the 1960s was the apogee of what might be termed the Age of Cool – as defined by that quality of being simultaneously with-it and disengaged, in control but nonchalant, knowing but ironically self-aware, and above all inscrutably undemonstrative. – Martin Filler
I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes. – Nadia Giosia
The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. – Edsger Dijkstra
Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians. – Ma Ying-jeou
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of ‘Another Kind of Warrior.’ I’d write it beginning to end, but when I’d finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I’d start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16. – Neil Cross
The real important thing about Digital-Original publication goes beyond the fact that authors make more money off each sale than through traditional publishing. It’s that we get to bypass a system of gatekeepers who have more than ‘quality’ as criteria for what they choose. – Michael A. Stackpole
I am a total believer of making the process a good time – make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don’t get crazy, see what happens. – Garry Marshall
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a… you say ‘kick’ in America? It’s a fantastic profession in that way. – Erland Josephson
Denzel’s quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That’s what he does and that’s what he taught me to do. – Derek Luke
