Quality Quotes - Page 33

• Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit.

  John Eldredge

  Duration, Limits, Life Is

  John Eldredge (2000). “The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.

  John Updike

  Way, Firsts, Seeming

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.37, Random House

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• Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Strong, Team, Home

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

  Sarah Vowell

  Good Life, Wine, Lunch

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• Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach - how you look at things . . . Whatsoever you do, if you do it joyfully, if you do it lovingly, if your act of doing is not purely economical, then it is creative.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attitude, Creativity

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• Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

  Georgette Heyer

  Vices, Objects

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Powder And Patch”, p.44, Random House

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• There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

  Jim Bush

  Educational, Data, Skills Training

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• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Religious, War

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• This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sunday, Childhood, Feelings

  Margaret Atwood (1999). “The Edible Woman”, Emblem Editions

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• So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Art, Simple

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.

  Walter Isaacson

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.692, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think of someone's good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it's as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they can see so clearly the umeboshi on other people's backs.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Jealous, Thinking, People

  "Fictional character: Tohru Honda". "Fruits Basket", 1998 - 2006.

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• Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

  Aristotle

  Character, Meditation, Mind

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.364, Simon and Schuster

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• If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Velocity, Ifs

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy". Book by Bill Gates, 1999.

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• An award does not change the quality of a book.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Change, Book, Awards

  Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for The Polar Express, polarexpress.com. 1986.

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• We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.

  Glen E. Morrell

  War, Character, Army

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• WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.

  Rick Riordan

  Illustration, Background Noise, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Thinking, Toasters, Magazines

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

  Earl Nightingale

  Giving Up, Men, Persistence

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• Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can't say it's three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it's colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It's a quality, not a thing.

  Mickey Mantle

  Courage, Piano, Smell

  Mickey Mantle (1964). “The Quality of Courage”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press

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• So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Horse, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.26, 谷月社

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Agency, Sensual, Vision

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• In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes the life impulse of the play, its driving force, and is basic to all plot structures...In any true piece of art...the beginning and the end are, or should be, polar in principle. All the main qualities of the first section should transform themselves into their opposites in the last section.

  Michael Chekhov

  Art, Opposites, Play

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• Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Yoga, Evil, Personality

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• Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Strong, Fall

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 18, 1843.

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