Quality Quotes - Page 26

• Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

  James Fenton

  Art, Names, Obscurity

  "Negative images" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2002.

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• Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.

  Carrie Fisher

  Acting, Way, Harbour

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• Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Meat, Eating, Used

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• When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Golf, Firsts, Married

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• Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.

  Thomas Frank

  Believe, Mean, Cities

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.110, MIT Press

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• I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.

  Stephen Fry

  Stars, Ordinary, Needs

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2004.

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• If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

  Jerry Garcia

  Real, Character, Effort

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• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Energy, Pace

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• As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.

  Atul Gawande

  Team, Doctors, Practice

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• Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

  Richard Gere

  Meditation, Mindfulness, Illusion

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

  Edward Gibbon

  Army, Soldier, Navy

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.283

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• Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

  William Glasser

  Acceptance, World, Clients

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Book, Teaching

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Average, Taste

  "Conversations with Eckermann". Book by Johann Peter Eckermann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, February 26, 1824.

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• I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

  Eva Green

  Party, Sometimes, Persons

  Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.

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• When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.

  Brian Greene

  Appreciate, Benefits, Pacemakers

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• Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

  John Grogan

  Loyalty, Dog, Optimism

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• An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

  Jasmine Guy

  Creating, Community, Activist

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• What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

  Zaha Hadid

  Britain And America, Building, Civics

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• 'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

  Anthony Hamilton

  School, Successful, Love Is

  Interview with Lori Lane, www.mtv.co.uk. May 10, 2012.

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• It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.

  Augustus Hare

  Sweet, Believe, Flower

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• I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Karma, Worry, Trying

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• I ain't no author, man . . . my writing skills are not of "New York Times" best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

  Steve Harvey

  New York, Believe, Writing

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

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• With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

  Dennis Hastert

  Moving On, Believe, Moved On

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• Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

  Anne Hathaway

  Kindness, Important, Sense Of Humor

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

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