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Quality Quotes

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

– Clive Bell

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

– Mel Carnahan

The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

– Natalie Goldberg

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

– Edward Gibbon

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn’t mean that they’re well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

– Nate Berkus

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

– Dan Quayle

Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.

– Nadia Giosia

The quality of life, values that go down to doin’ that, that’s the issue.

– Cecil Taylor

I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody’s going to see it, but you know it’s there.

– Mindy Grossman

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

– Dale Turner

Someone asked me about what’s it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, ‘When they’re Wal-Mart associates, it’s not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.’ I’m really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company.

– Mike Duke

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.

– Eric Ries

‘The Sound of Things Falling’ may be a page turner, but it’s also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez’s prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean’s idiomatic English version. All the novel’s characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

– Edmund White

Film acting is one of the only industries where you’re criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it’s considered a quality and something to behold.

– Nicolas Cage

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

– Elizabeth Esty

While weight loss is important, what’s more important is the quality of food you put in your body – food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

– Mark Hyman

Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it’s about the landscape.

– Donald Tusk

The great photographers of life – like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank – all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.

– Caleb Deschanel

I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that’s it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.

– Daniel Radcliffe

The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist’s choice.

– Fernando Botero

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.

– Eric Fellner

I guess I’ve played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn’t been one sometime. I’m always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

– Danny Huston

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

– Gil Kane

The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

– Dana Boente

I think the general public’s response to my projects is very strong. You can be an intellectual and say that popularity detracts from architectural quality. On the other hand, you can see in the public’s identification something very positive.

– Moshe Safdie

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

– Ferdinand Mount

Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

– Mitch Gaylord

When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

– DeForest Soaries

The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can’t trip about that because I’ve been making movies for 35 years, and I’ve played everything from an old lady to a donkey, so I can’t be on here talking about, ‘They don’t give us enough roles’ and diversity.

– Eddie Murphy

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