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• What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Self Control

  "The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929".

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Business Success, Management

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• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Get Better, Done

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413

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• Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

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• I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

  Alvin Ailey

  Color, Important, Trying

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Actors, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.204, Library of America

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• Quality questions create a quality life.

  Tony Robbins

  Network Marketing, Quality Of Life, Minor Things

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

  Albert Bandura

  Jobs, Negative, Job Satisfaction

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Happiness, Men, Genius

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspiring, Strong, Helping Others

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• The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Light, Literature, Scrutinize

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

  Herman Melville

  Gone, Literature, States

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

  Dan Quayle

  Jobs, Opportunity, America

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• Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

  Jessica Savitch

  Air, Literature, Adequate

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Soul, Secret

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

  Rob Zombie

  Wanted, High Quality

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

  Walter Pater

  Art, Giving, Moments

  1873 'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.

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• We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Business, Healing

  "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.

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• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

  Ray Kroc

  Focus, Reputation, Stores

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.70, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Gaps

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