Quality Quotes - Page 6

• One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

  Gale Harold

  Leader, Battle, Energy

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• A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Ideas, Results

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• Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be.

  Peter London

  Imagination, Mind, World

  Peter London (1989). “No More Secondhand Art”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.

  John Buchan

  Organization, Merit, Scales

  John Buchan (1937). “Augustus”

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• The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Education

  1970 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, ch.29.

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• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.31, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Gains, Ingredients

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• Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

  Jack Canfield

  Giving Up, Persistence, Favors

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 17, 2013

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• Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Peace, Heart

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• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Needs, Innocence

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand "Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach" (p. 509), 1978.

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  It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Nature, Heart, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4945, e-artnow

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Art, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.153, Harvard University Press

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• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Hair

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• The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Way, Surprise, Cliche

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• Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

  Joyce Meyer

  Decisions We Make, Feelings, May

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• The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Integrity, Character, Men

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Inspirational, Charm

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• Don't document bad code - rewrite it.

  Brian Kernighan

  Code Quality, Programming, Software Engineering

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• 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Education, Children, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Marlee Matlin

  Reading, Voice, Hiv

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• Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

  E. J. Hughes

  Art, Feels, Early Work

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• But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

  Robert Kennedy

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Giving, Vitality, Artistic

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• The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

  Bridget Riley

  Thinking, Order, Magic

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