Quantity And Quality Quotes

• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Excellence, Quality

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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• Quantity has a quality all its own.

  Joseph Stalin

  Intelligent, Quality, Quantity

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• Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

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• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Plato, Men

  Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.55

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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.25

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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Work, Quality Not Quantity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Young India”

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• Quality is the best business plan.

  John Lasseter

  Quality Not Quantity, Pixar, Best Business

  Amid Amidi, John Lasseter (2009). “The Art of Pixar Short Films”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Quality Not Quantity, Literature

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• You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about.

  Josh Turner

  Love Is, Thinking, Quality

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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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• I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

  Reba McEntire

  Thinking, Quality Not Quantity, Special

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• The real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Attitude, Real

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Quality, Found, Quantity

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Political, before the revolution”, p.356

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• I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

  Keanu Reeves

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• Education is a matter of the spirit. No wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without. No one knoweth the things of the man except the spirit of man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education, and as soon as a young child begins his education, he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind stuff. Both quantity and quality are essential.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Men, Self

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• In a socialist society, everybody is obliged to work even though he is remunerated for his labor and not yet according to his needs, but according to the quantity and quality of the labor expended.

  Joseph Stalin

  Quality, Needs, Socialist

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• I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Food, Quality, Essentials

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality; in the fluids of the animal body; in the systole an

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Light, Ebb And Flow

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.137, Penguin

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• You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but one answer. If she does the same quantity and quality of work under the same conditions as a man, simple justice requires that she should be paid the same. wages. To deny her this is to deny her justice.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Women, Simple, Justice

  John Peter Altgeld (1890). “Live Questions: Including Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims”

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• Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

  Joseph Stalin

  Order, Creating, People

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• The common man is the sovereign consumer whose buying or abstention from buying ultimately determines what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Liberty, Quality

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.1, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Years, Silence, Meditation

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• In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

  J. Stalin

  Quality, Doe, Unemployment

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

  James Van Allen

  Space, Quality, Cost

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• The number of the hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. It is our most precious resource. The more we take responsibility for the energy we bring to the world, the more empowered and productive we become. The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

  Jim Loehr

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Power

  Jim Loehr, Dr. James E. Loehr, Tony Schwartz (2005). “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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