Quality Quotes - Page 7

• The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

  Gyorgy Kepes

  Giving, Vitality, Artistic

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• Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Levels, Ifs

  Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.39, John Wiley & Sons

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• Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Taken, Analysis

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• Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

  Dean Keith Simonton

  Creativity, Rubbish, Research

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• I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

  Paul Prudhomme

  House, Firsts, Where You Live

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

  Don Marquis

  Needs, Too Much, Trouble

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• Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Action, Management, Behavior

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

  Bertrand Russell

  Tolerance, Isms, Charity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.160, Routledge

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• Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has been given to you by others - if you drop all that has been given by others, you will have a totally different quality to your being: innocence. This will be a crucifixion of the persona, the personality, and there will be a resurrection of your innocence. You will become a child again, reborn.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Names, Personality

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  Richard Rogers

  Believe, Passion, People

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• The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

  Hurt, Wine, Science

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• A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Courage, Patriotic

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• What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Self Control

  "The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929".

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• Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

  Renata Adler

  People, Community, Mental Health

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Pride, Chance, Management

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• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Reality, Management, Improvement

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Christmas, Memories, Holiday

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• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Happy, Philosophical

  "On the Improvement of the Understanding". Book by Baruch Spinoza, 1677.

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• I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Success, Leadership

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

  George S. Patton

  Fall, Fire, Decisions You Make

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  Aldous Huxley

  Moral Behavior, Numbers, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.

  John W. Gardner

  Leadership, Style, Next

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