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“Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.”

Thinking Sometimes Hard Quality Achieve Hard Work Attractive Get Away Banner

Author:Phil Crosby

“Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.”

Ifs Simple Quality Needed Management Quality Management

Author:Phil Crosby

“The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong.”

Quality Cost Expenses

Author:Phil Crosby

“We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.”

Ifs Quality Manage Specifications

Author:Phil Crosby

“Tips can make someone a better writer but not necessarily a good writer. That's a larger package - a matter of character. Golfing is more than keeping the left arm straight. Every good golfer is a complex engine that runs on ability, ego, determination, discipline, patience, confidence, and other qualities that are self-taught. So it is with writers and all creative artists. If their values are solid their work is likely to be solid.”

“You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.”

Ifs Trying Mean Able Asks Goal Results Quality Leader Progress Worthy Statements Life Changing Acceptable Quality Of Life Undisciplined Great Results

Author:James C. Collins

“People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.”

People Fighting Asks Quality Ask Me

Author:Venus Williams

“The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw.”

Ifs Matter Quality

Author:Eli Manning

“Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.”

Ifs Art Quality Wall Ought Highest Masterpiece Dukes Tiaras

Author:Joseph Alsop

“What is the best way to look for one´s chief feature?" someone asked. Simply see yourself. I do not know how to explain it better. It is possible one may find something -- chief feature of the moment. It is imaginary personality; this is the chief feature for everybody."Can one alter one´s chief feature?" asked someone else. First it is necessary to know it. If you know it, much will depend on the quality of your knowing. If you know it well, then it is possible to change it.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Wells Looks May Moments Quality Know How Knowing Personality Depends Best Way Chiefs Features Imaginary

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.”

Trying Simple Quality Approach Plates Keep It Simple

Author:Jacoby Ellsbury

“I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.”

Trying Hard Together Quality Balls Bats

Author:Garrett Atkins

“Guys don't want to get to two strikes, so you have to make quality pitches early in the count, try to get them to put the ball in play.”

Want Trying Two Play Guy Quality Balls Strikes

Author:Stephen Strasburg

“Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.”

Giving Sides Quality Forgiveness Mercy Both Sides Admirable Amnesty Admirable Qualities

Author:Victor Hugo

“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.”

Running Consciousness Quality Issues Music Is Folks Radio Streams Folk Music

Author:Mary Travers

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Hurt Quality Been Hurt Love Hurt

Author:Rajneesh

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”

Quality Distance Range Defects

Author:Victor Hugo

“Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.”

Humans Soul Given Human Beings Quality Sincerity

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.”

Way Quality Produce Saving Obedience

Book:Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness

Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness

“If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.”

Ifs Quality Managers Good Man One Word Decisiveness Good Manager

Author:Lee Iacocca

“The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and gesture of soul.”

Real Soul Spirit Quality Depth Purity Quantity Gestures Fortitude Real Questions

Book:The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

Source: The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry

“From our best qualities come our worst. From our urge to pull together comes our tendency to tear each other apart. From our devotion to a higher good comes our propensity to the foulest atrocities. From our commitment to ideals comes our excuse to hate. Since the beginning of history, we have been blinded by evil's ability to don a selfless disguise. We have failed to see that our finest qualities often lead us to the actions we most abhor, murder, torture, genocide and war.”

“Tennis is a huge part of my life, but I don't base my self-value or my self-worth or the quality of my life on my results on the court.”

Self Values Results Quality Huge Court Self Worth Tennis My Self Worth

Author:Venus Williams

“These new metal bands are going out, getting drunk and going to strip clubs, and they'll be doing the same in thirty years. There isn't even an interesting self-destructive quality to it . . . it's just dumb.”

Years Self Interesting Quality Band Clubs Drunk Dumb Thirty Destructive Metals Going Out Thirty Years Self Destructive Getting Drunk Metal Band

Author:Moby

“If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?”

Ifs Thinking Trying Made Real Able Differences Quality Faster Slow Down

Author:Guy Finley

“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .”

“When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.”

“I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye...although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!”

Writing Might Eye Bits Lines Interesting Quality Saws Cry Tears Mum Her Eyes

Author:Iain Dowie

“Grace is so great an adornment for a rider, and at the same time so important a means to the knowledge of all that which is necessary for persons aspiring to become riders, that such persons should willingly sped the time required to obtain that quality at the outside of their endeavors.”

Should Mean Persons Important Quality Grace Endeavor Riders Adornment Sped

Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

“Others make a point of trying to attain the precision and poise they see in those who have the ability to choose from a great number of horses those with [...] qualities found in only a very small number of horses. This leads to a circumstance in which these imitators of such studied poise mortify the spirit of a noble horse, and remove from it all of the goodness of temperament Nature has given it.”

Trying Spirit Found Given Ability Numbers Quality Circumstances Goodness Horse Noble Remove Temperament Precision Poise Small Numbers Imitator Ability To Choose

Author:Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

“Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.”

Character Results Quality Greatness Circumstances

Author:Dean Acheson

“We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.”

Needs Giving Kids Order Quality Risk Students Adventure Adults Capacity Tests Curiosity Insight Resilience Surprising Now And Then Introducing Autonomy Flexible Competent Youthfulness

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.”

People Knows World Giving Country Quality Give Me Construction Good Quality

Author:Vladimir Putin

“If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.”

Ifs Men Way Trying Made Effort Quality Study Eternity Forgiving Astronomy Unhappy Characteristics Constructs

Author:Mark Twain

“The all-pervading energy source of existence or Shakti manifests itself as creation. Shakti is the divine mother who gives birth to and nurtures the newborn-whether it is a newborn babies a brand new relationship, a fresh idea, or a magical manifestation. Although Shakti is beyond the boundaries of gender, form or color, we call It Mother because of its mothering and creative qualities.”

“Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.”

Mind Humans Heart Light Quality Mankind Honesty Blessing Machines Essence Sincerity Good Heart Inner Light Human Qualities

Author:Dalai Lama

“If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.”

Ifs Looks Attitude Quality Proud Increase Assuming Humble Dues Unhappiness Jealous Good Quality

Author:Dalai Lama

“The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.”

“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”

Kind May Doe Character Lying Common Quality Objects Taste Unique Claims Originals Consumers Exploits Deceptive Availability Elitist Kitsch Inaccessible Rarity Forgery

Author:Matei Calinescu

“The techniques of kitsch, which are based on imitation, are rational and operate according to formulas; the remain rational even when their result has a highly irrational, even crazy, quality.”

Results Quality Crazy Technique Rational Formulas Irrational Imitation Kitsch

Book:Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch

Source: Geist and Zeitgeist: Six Essays by Hermann Broch

“Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.”

Reality Quality Intellectual Patterns Metaphysics Describing Static

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.”

Giving Given Nations Answers Quality Trouble Praying Ethics Quality Of Life Sanctity Identifying Sanctity Of Life Hope And Pray

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement”

Firsts Stories Quality Miracle Presses Short Story Dominant Polish Crude Extravagant Concise Understatement

Book:The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings

Source: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings

“In general, the best advice I can give people is to take criticism seriously, apologize for anything you have done wrong, and pull back from conflict. Of course, if you are right on a content matter, you should press forward in the interest of quality, but conflict often has a way of taking on a life of its own, unfortunately.”

People Ifs Way Giving Should I Can Matter Done Courses Interest Quality Advice Conflict Criticism Presses Apologizing Best Advice

Author:Jimmy Wales

“Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.”

People Shows Quality Information Intelligent Active Customers Coffee Conclusion Tea Delivering Good Quality Coffee And Tea

Author:Jerry Baldwin

“People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'”

People Ifs Want Asks Quality Watches Tvs Islands Programming Hypocrite

Author:Johnny Carson

“...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.”

Knows Quality Successful Revolution Management Exception Participation

Author:Joseph M. Juran

“Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Government Quality Exercise Human Mind Great Qualities

Book:The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes

Source: The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes

“I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.”

May Hard Quality

Author:Kenny Lofton

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