Quality Quotes

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

The public always picks quality.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips.

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

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

I really see low-fare carriers, quality low-fare carriers anyway, continuing to become more and more popular.

Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.

We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

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.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

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

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

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

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

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

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils.

In Beverly Hills, it's very spoiled in terms of the quality of life. I think the climate and the space and the quality of life in Beverly Hills is exceptional.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

What we are doing is taking advantage of the broadband Internet to provide basically unlimited free calls to anyone at a higher voice quality than they can with the phone lines.

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

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

We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you.

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

All my clients eat. Madonna has a very healthy appetite. She doesn't eat processed food, she's very conscious of the quality of the things she eats but she has treats - she loves cupcakes.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.