Quality Quotes - Page 5

• The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Matter, Satisfaction, Should

  "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon: Reflections of a Pilgrim on the Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1958.

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• Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

  Tom DeMarco

  Pay, Testers, Testing

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.22, Addison-Wesley

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• Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Improvement, Hours, Permit

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• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Destiny, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Quantity, Affected

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• The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Flow, Fantasy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.170, Penguin

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• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

  Bill Cosby

  Work, Labor Day, Doe

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• Beauty is less important than quality.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Beauty, Important

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• Modesty is my best quality.

  Jack Benny

  Modesty

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• I think the environment has become more competitive. That has made Indian industry more concerned with a) its customers, b) the quality of its products, and c) its brand image in the marketplace.

  Ratan Tata

  Thinking, Competition, Environment

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• Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Mere, Allocation, Huge

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• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Art, Humorous

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  Dada Vaswani

  Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

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• If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Keys

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 09, 2017

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• Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Rivers, Bad Qualities, Causes

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• Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

  Thomas Jefferson

  Equality, Men, Threatened

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• Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Respect, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.22, Xist Publishing

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• The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.

  Wayne Dyer

  Giving, Feelings, Live In The Moment

  Wayne dyer, Wayne W. Dyer (1981). “The sky's the limit”, Pocket

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• Fortunately, when it comes to meat and poultry, I have the really wonderful situation of having producers and processors that produce and process a very high-quality product.

  Mike Johanns

  Meat, Poultry, Wonderful

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

  W. Edwards Deming

  Cost, Machines, Pay

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• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Lows, Interest

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• Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

  Robert Owen

  Important, Originality, Individual

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• It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

  Jack White

  Art, Emotional, Impact

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