“It seems the best approach for any venture is a combo platter - Japan's quality-consciousness paired with America's willingness to experiment and (sometimes) fail.” SometimesSeemsAmericaConsciousnessQualityFailingApproachExperimentsJapanWillingnessVenture Author:Daniel H. Pink
“The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaRealizingQualityJournalismDependentOur SocietyQuality Of LifePillars Author:Scott Pelley
“Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.” AmericaCommunityQualityResponsibilityEconomyCongressSecureAgendasTaking ResponsibilityInnovativeQuality Of Life Author:Rick Larsen
“An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.” ThinkingAmericaQualityAttractiveIdolsAmerican IdolAlluringAttractive Qualities Author:Mario Vazquez
“In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims.” RealWould BeAmericaStarsQualitySituationHollywoodClaimsListsBrandsAdsCigaretteManufacturingTobaccoHollywood Stars Author:Peter York
“Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.” WayAmericaStrongActingQualityProfessionSensualFantasticKicks Author:Erland Josephson
“America isn't as lucky as you guys (Europeans), who for the most part have this quality of food that keeps you slim. We're over-eaters in the United States by nature, with fast food and all this kind of thing.” KindStatesAmericaGuyUnitedQualityUnited StatesLuckyFast FoodSlim Author:John Travolta
“The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.” WorldMadeProblemDreamAmericaNationsQualityApproachMethodNew WorldAncestorAmerican DreamPioneersStaticEmulateWorld Problems Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsProblemEarthAmericaLyingForceImaginationAnswersQualityProgressFieldsPrideEntrepreneurUniversityProsperityHardestFactoriesHuman HistoryLaboratoryDon't Lie Author:Barack Obama
“A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?” WayGivingWisdomAmericaBeautifulCulturePoliticsQualityEconomyBuildingSourceHigherCivilizationOfficeArchitectureStreamsLiberalismWhy NotBeautiful Life Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.” FirstsCharacterSeemsAmericaQualityBuildingForgivingBlockTelling The TruthBuilding Blocks Author:Mona Charen
“In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've become accustomed to the title of Military Superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there. We've become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products and wise investments.” WorldYearsIdeasHardAmericaPastForgetDealsQualityRichWiseEconomicMilitaryProductsHard WorkAchievementSmartInvestmentTitlesSchemesAccustomedRecklessComplacencyGet RichDominanceGlitterSuperpowerEnamoredPast SuccessGet Rich Quick Author:Barack Obama
“In America we've spent over a billion dollars on autism research. What have we got for that? We've not seen anything that's appreciably impacted the quality of life of autistic people, regardless of their place on the spectrum. Quite frankly, we've spent $1bn figuring out how to make mice autistic and we'll spend another $1bn figuring out how to make them not autistic. And that's not what the average person wakes up in the morning aspiring to. They think: am I going to be able to find a job, to communicate, to live independently, either on my own or with support? Those are the real priorities.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealAbleJobsAmericaMy OwnQualityMorningSupportResearchWake UpDollarsAverageCommunicateBillionsPrioritiesAutismMiceSpectrumQuality Of LifeAutisticAverage Person Author:Ari Ne'eman
“What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.” AmericaQualityBuildingBritainCivicsGood QualityBritain And America Author:Zaha Hadid
“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.” PeopleIfsChildrenCountryCareKidsAmericaMovingOpportunityGrowthQualityWorryCollegeMajorsSakeEducationalHealth CareQuality Of LifeHigh QualityChild Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.” AmericaValuesCultureSilenceQualityStyleCommunicationDirectEastCharacteristicsGermanyPrivacyIndividualismDominantIntrovertRestraintAsiaFast PacedNoisyFinlandEast Asia Author:Laurie Helgoe
“Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.” ThinkingWorldAmericaQualitySeriousInnovationEducationalImprovementQuality Of LifeDelusional Author:Dean Kamen