Quality Quotes - Page 32

• That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

  Joss Whedon

  Stupid, People, Titles

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• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  Ellen G. White

  True Love, Wise, Strong

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• Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

  Ellen G. White

  Blood, Cake, Pie

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• Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

  Theodore White

  Bravery, Grace, Greek

  Theodore Harold White (1965). “The Making of the President: 1964”

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• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  E. O. Wilson

  Organization, Levels, Outcomes

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• The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

  E. O. Wilson

  Believe, Southern, Humanity

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• Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

  Fred Wilson

  Educational, Want Something, Way

  "Customer Financing: Sell Something To Get Your Startup Going" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

  James Wolcott

  Running, Team, Character

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• There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Joy, Firsts

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• Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Village, Grew Up, Access

  "Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mean, Tools, Care

  "It’s Time to Put Affordable Health Care for the Poor Within Reach" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2009.

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• Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

  Julian Baggini

  Firsts, Quantity, Appropriate

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• Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Typical, Cost

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• Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Important, Satisfaction

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• The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Independent, Voice, Cinema

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• I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

  Tucker Max

  Matter

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• I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.

  Callum Keith Rennie

  Dedication, Psychosis, Long

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• The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Home, Technology, Ideas

  "Living In The Present Is A Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

  Flannery O'Connor

  People, Use, Able

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

  Margaret Atwood

  Kindness, Distance, Men

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Emotional, Clear, Reasoning

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Sign of the Four”, p.26, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Writing, Law

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Inspiring, Thinking, People

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• He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good and more harm in the world than you've ever imagined--it is all but impossible not to believe, at least in his presence and a while after you've left him, that he alone sees through your essence, weighs your true qualities . . . and appreciates you more fully than anyone else ever has.

  Michael Cunningham

  Believe, Essence, Appreciate

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• Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Essentials, Garbage, Advertising

  Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.1, Macmillan

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