Quality Quotes - Page 8

• Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Infinite, Enjoyment

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.59

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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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• When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Men, Get Better, Done

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.413

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• Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Artist

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

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• I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

  Alvin Ailey

  Color, Important, Trying

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• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Business Success, Management

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• It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Numbers, Actors, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.204, Library of America

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• Quality questions create a quality life.

  Tony Robbins

  Network Marketing, Quality Of Life, Minor Things

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Insperational, Perfect

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• We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Health, Kids, Commitment

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• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Motivational, Wisdom, Perseverance

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Soul, Secret

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.122, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Business, Healing

  "Visions: Turkish Earthquake - an Islamic apocalyptic sign? The dream of Janet Holmes a' Court and a republican prophet - John Dunmore Lang". Interview with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. August 25, 1999.

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• The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Light, Literature, Scrutinize

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

  Ray Kroc

  Focus, Reputation, Stores

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.70, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Beholder, Aesthetic

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

  Herman Melville

  Gone, Literature, States

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Gaps

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Happiness, Men, Genius

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

  James Whistler

  Art, Achievement, Virtue

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

  Rob Zombie

  Wanted, High Quality

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• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Giving, Moments

  1873 'Conclusion' in Studies in the History of the Renaissance.

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• There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point in his work: what he does is done - through and through; when he paints eyes, they are lit with the fire of life.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Eye, Men, Fire

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• Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspiring, Strong, Helping Others

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