Quality Quotes - Page 9

• One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

  Brian Tracy

  Commitment, Achievement, Leader

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• Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

  James Whistler

  Art, Achievement, Virtue

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Beholder, Aesthetic

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Death, Color, Design

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• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Hygiene, Differences, Literature

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• High-quality food is better for your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Longevity, Diets, High Quality

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• It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

  Philip Green

  Life, Family, Balance

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• 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

  Fear, War, Intelligent

  "An Owner's Manual for Men: What You Need to Know Before You Venture out There". Book by Joe Nickaloff (p. 96),

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• Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

  James Cash Penney

  Leadership, Confidence, Trust No One

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• Do all men kill the things they do not love ............ The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest It blesseth him that gives and him that takes

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Men, Venice

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• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Time, Matter, Youth

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• The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Health, Exercise, Reason

  Interview with Robert Reinhold:, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 1987.

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• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Differences, Pleasure, Longevity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1352, Delphi Classics

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• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Andre Maurois

  Leadership, Business, Important

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

  William James

  Pay, Supreme

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.105, Harvard University Press

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• What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

  John Ruskin

  Ends

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• If it's good they'll stop making it.

  Henry W. Bloch

  Ifs

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• Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Needs, Firsts

  "Paulo Coelho Explains Why Courage Is The Most Important Spiritual Quality". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2014.

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Excellence, Matter

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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  Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Children, Greatness, Organization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Children, May

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• If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Business, Work

  The Note Book (1927)

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

  William James

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Want

  "Do You Have Executive Presence?" by Paul Hellman, www.cnbc.com. April 1, 2010.

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• The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.

  Max von Stephanitz

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

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