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1:Quality is conformance to requirements.
~ Crosby,#KEYS |
2:To manage quality you must measure it.
~ George?,#KEYS |
| 3:A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #KEYS |
| 4:Quality is not an act, it is a habit." ~ Aristotle, #KEYS |
5:To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
~ Henry David Thoreau, [T5],#KEYS |
| 6:The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., #KEYS |
7:All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
~ Baruch Spinoza,#KEYS |
| 8:Quality and quantity differ, the self is equal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, #KEYS |
| 9:If holiness can be compared to any other quality, it is only to strength. ~ Meng-Tse, the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS |
| 10:It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #KEYS |
| 11:A lonely day is God's way of saying that He wants to spend some quality time with you." ~ Jami, @Sufi_Path #KEYS |
| 12:I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters. ~ Miriam, #KEYS |
| 13:Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." ~ Idil Ahmed, #KEYS |
| 14:The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche, #KEYS |
| 15:The sattwic quality is a first mediator between the higher and the lower nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, Deva and Asura, #KEYS |
| 16:There is no quality higher than forbearance. With a firm determination, endure all that is said or done by others ~ Sri Ramakrishna, #KEYS |
| 17:You people are rich with your ideas of possession, of quantity and quality. I am completely without ideas. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, #KEYS |
18:The other one of a complementary pair the opposite sex; the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colours; Altogether different in nature, quality or significance
~ ?,#KEYS |
| 19:Intelligence does not depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, The Place of Study in Sadhana, #KEYS |
| 20:Drinking if excessive affects the substance and quality of the energy. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Interactions with Others and the Practice of Yoga, #KEYS |
| 21:As you start to see your own potential, you will also begin to recognize it in every being around you. Buddha nature is not a special quality available to just a privileged few. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche, #KEYS |
| 22:When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart. ~ Edgar Allan Poe, #KEYS |
23:An aimless life is always a miserable life. Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
~ The Mother, On Education, p.3,#KEYS |
| 24:This prince shall extend his dominion over the entire universe. At the same time there will be a Great Pope, who will be the most eminent in sanctity and most perfect in every quality." ~ Saint Caesarius of Arles, (c. 468 - d. 542 AD), #KEYS |
| 25:Control of consciousness determines the quality of life." ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, (b. 1934) Hungarian-American psychologist, named the psychological concept of 'flow', a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity, Wikipedia His book:, #KEYS |
| 26:Divine Love is not merely a sublimation of human emotions; it is a different consciousness, with a different quality, movement and substance. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II, Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love, #KEYS |
| 27:Leave out of your mind the quality of him who speaks to you whether great or small, and consider with an open mind whether the words spoken are true or false. ~ Iamblichus "Book on the Mysteries 1", the Eternal Wisdom #KEYS |
28:If Lisp is a 'programmable programming language,' then Scheme is an assemble-it-at-home kit for making yourself a programmable programming language. JavaScript does not have this quality AT ALL.
~ ?, http://raganwald.com/2013/07/19/javascript-is-a-lisp.html,#KEYS |
| 29:The Eternal is bound neither by quality nor absence of quality, neither by Personality nor by Impersonality; He is Himself, beyond all our positive and all our negative definitions. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Modes of the Self, #KEYS |
| 30:Uqba ibn Muslim said: 'No quality in a man is dearer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than the longing to meet Him. At no moment is a man closer to God, Great and Glorious is He, than when he sinks down in prostration. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, #KEYS |
| 31:When you find yourself tensing because of pain, carefully examine the quality of unpleasantness, the quality of painfulness. Become mindful of that feeling and the mind will naturally come to a state of balance." ~ Joseph Goldstein, (b. 1944), "The Experience of Insight,", (1987), #KEYS |
32:What is obstinacy? How can one use it best?
It is the wrong use of a great quality - perseverance. Make a good use of it and it will be all right. Be obstinate in your effort towards progress, and your obstinacy will become useful.
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS |
| 33:There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #KEYS |
| 34:Bhakti can be more easily practiced by persons in every condition of life. Extreme love for God is Bhakti. The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind, and the firmly established Bhakti for the Supreme Lord is alone sufficient to purify the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #KEYS |
| 35:We should understand God, if we can and as far as we can, to be good w/o quality, great w/o quantity, creative w/o need or necessity, presiding w/o position, holding all things together w/o possession, wholly everywhere w/o place, everlasting w/o time. ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo, De Trin V prol, #KEYS |
| 36:For example, when practitioners transform into Shenlha Ökar (Shen Deity of White Light), they visualize their bodies as being adorned with the thirteen ornaments of peacefulness that in themselves evoke the enlightened quality of peacefulness.2 Shenlha Ökar himself embodies all six of the antidote qualities of love, generosity, wisdom, openness, peacefulness, and compassion; so as soon as you transform into Shenlha Ökar, you instantly embody these same qualities. ~ Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Yogas of Body, Speech, and Mind, #KEYS |
| 37:The spirit, while superior to all of its bodies, is incapable of manifesting without its chain of vehicles. This divine spark must always be limited by the quality of its bodies. In all too many cases, it is the servant of its own dependencies. Instead of ruling its world by apostolic succession, the spirit is generally bowed and broken by the endless demands of the lower nature. The appetites, desires, and selfish propensities cast the spirit into a dungeon, while a false and cruel monarch rules the empire in his stead. ~ Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics, #KEYS |
| 38:This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. ~ Vicktor Hugo, #KEYS |
39:The cup can be regarded as an aetheric receptacle for the magical perception. Of all the weapons, it is the one least likely to resemble the physical object whose name it bears, although actual cups of ink or blood are sometimes used. For some, the cup exists as a mirror, a shew stone, a state of trance, a tarot pack, a mandala, a state of dreaming, or a feeling that just comes to them. These things often act as devices for preoccupying oneself with something else, so that magical perceptions can surface unhindered by discursive thought and imagination. Part of the power that is built up in them can be likened to self-fascination. The cup weapon acquires an autohypnotic quality and provides a doorway through which the perception has access to other realms.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS |
40:Necessarily, when we say it is without them, we mean that it exceeds them, that it is something into which they pass in such a way as to cease to be what we call form, quality, quantity and out of which they emerge as form, quality and quantity in the movement.
They do not pass away into one form, one quality, one quantity which is the basis of all the rest, - for there is none such, - but into something which cannot be defined by any of these terms.
So all things that are conditions and appearances of the movement pass into That from which they have come and there, so far as they exist, become something that can no longer be described by the terms that are appropriate to them in the movement.
Therefore we say that the pure existence is an Absolute and in itself unknowable by our thought although we can go back to it in a supreme identity that transcends the terms of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, 1.09-09,#KEYS |
41:Do not be over-eager for experience, - for experiences you can always get, having once broken the barrier between the physical mind and the subtle planes. What you have to aspire for most is the improved quality of the recipient consciousness in you - discrimination in the mind, the unattached impersonal Witness look on all that goes on in you and around you, purity in the vital, calm equanimity, enduring patience, absence of pride and the sense of greatness - and more especially, the development of the psychic being in you - surrender, self-giving, psychic humility, devotion. It is a consciousness made up of these things, cast in this mould that can bear without breaking, stumbling or deviation into error the rush of lights, powers and experiences from the supraphysical planes. An entire perfection in these respects is hardly possible until the whole nature from the highest mind to the subconscient physical is made one in the light that is greater than Mind; but a sufficient foundation and a consciousness always self-observant, vigilant and growing in these things is indispensable
- for perfect purification is the basis of the perfect siddhi. ~ ?,#KEYS |
| 42:Here I want to make it very clear that mathematics is not what many people think it is; it is not a system of mere formulas and theorems; but as beautifully defined by Professor Cassius J. Keyser, in his book The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking (Columbia University Press, 1916), mathematics is the science of "Exact thought or rigorous thinking," and one of its distinctive characteristics is "precision, sharpness, completeness of definitions." This quality alone is sufficient to explain why people generally do not like mathematics and why even some scientists bluntly refuse to have anything to do with problems wherein mathematical reasoning is involved. In the meantime, mathematical philosophy has very little, if anything, to do with mere calculations or with numbers as such or with formulas; it is a philosophy wherein precise, sharp and rigorous thinking is essential. Those who deliberately refuse to think "rigorously"-that is mathematically-in connections where such thinking is possible, commit the sin of preferring the worse to the better; they deliberately violate the supreme law of intellectual rectitude. ~ Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity, #KEYS |
43:I think one of the most important thing is to know why one meditates; this is what gives the quality of the meditation and makes it of one order or another.
You may meditate to open yourself to the divine Force, you may meditate to reject the ordinary consciousness, you may meditate to enter the depths of your being, you may meditate to learn how to give yourself integrally; you may meditate for all kinds of things. You may meditate to enter into peace and calm and silence - this is what people generally do, but without much success. But you may also meditate to receive the Force of transformation, to discover the points to be transformed, to trace out the line of progress. And then you may also meditate for very practical reasons: when you have a difficulty to clear up, a solution to find, when you want help in some action or another. You may meditate for that too.
I think everyone has his own mode of meditation. But if one wants the meditation to be dynamic, one must have an aspiration for progress and the meditation must be done to help and fulfill this aspiration for progress. Then it becomes dynamic. ~ The Mother,#KEYS |
44:Ordinarily, man is limited in all these parts of his being and he can grasp at first only so much of the divine truth as has some large correspondence to his own nature and its past development and associations. Therefore God meets us first in different limited affirmations of his divine qualities and nature; he presents himself to the seeker as an absolute of the things he can understand and to which his will and heart can respond; he discloses some name and aspect of his Godhead.
This is what is called in Yoga the is.t.a-devata, the name and form elected by our nature for its worship. In order that the human being may embrace this Godhead with every part of himself, it is represented with a form that answers to its aspects and qualities and which becomes the living body of God to the adorer. These are those forms of Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Kali, Durga, Christ, Buddha, which the mind of man seizes on for adoration. Even the monotheist who worships a formless Godhead, yet gives to him some form of quality, some mental form or form of Nature by which he envisages and approaches him. But to be able to see a living form, a mental body, as it were, of the Divine gives to the approach a greater closeness and sweetness. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Mystery of Love,#KEYS |
45:8. We all recognize the Universe must have been thought into shape before it ever could have become a material fact. And if we are willing to follow along the lines of the Great Architect of the Universe, we shall find our thoughts taking form, just as the universe took concrete form. It is the same mind operating through the individual. There is no difference in kind or quality, the only difference is one of degree.
9. The architect visualizes his building, he sees it as he wishes it to be. His thought becomes a plastic mold from which the building will eventually emerge, a high one or a low one, a beautiful one or a plain one, his vision takes form on paper and eventually the necessary material is utilized and the building stands complete.
10. The inventor visualizes his idea in exactly the same manner, for instance, Nikola Tesla, he with the giant intellect, one of the greatest inventors of all ages, the man who has brought forth the most amazing realities, always visualizes his inventions before attempting to work them out. He did not rush to embody them in form and then spend his time in correcting defects. Having first built up the idea in his imagination, he held it there as a mental picture, to be reconstructed and improved by his thought. "In this way," he writes in the Electrical Experimenter. "I am enabled to rapidly develop and perfect a conception without touching anything. When I have gone so far as to embody in the invention every possible improvement I can think of, and see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete, the product of my brain. Invariably my devise works as I conceived it should; in twenty years there has not been a single exception. ~ Charles F Haanel, The Master Key System,#KEYS |
| 46:The most outward psychological form of these things is the mould or trend of the nature towards certain dominant tendencies, capacities, characteristics, form of active power, quality of the mind and inner life, cultural personality or type. The turn is often towards the predominance of the intellectual element and the capacities which make for the seeking and finding of knowledge and an intellectual creation or formativeness and a preoccupation with ideas and the study of ideas or of life and the information and development of the reflective intelligence. According to the grade of the development there is produced successively the make and character of the man of active, open, inquiring intelligence, then the intellectual and, last, the thinker, sage, great mind of knowledge. The soul-powers which make their appearance by a considerable development of this temperament, personality, soul-type, are a mind of light more and more open to all ideas and knowledge and incomings of Truth; a hunger and passion for knowledge, for its growth in ourselves, for its communication to others, for its reign in the world, the reign of reason and right and truth and justice and, on a higher level of the harmony of our greater being, the reign of the spirit and its universal unity and light and love; a power of this light in the mind and will which makes all the life subject to reason and its right and truth or to the spirit and spiritual right and truth and subdues the lower members to their greater law; a poise in the temperament turned from the first to patience, steady musing and calm, to reflection, to meditation, which dominates and quiets the turmoil of the will and passions and makes for high thinking and pure living, founds the self-governed sattwic mind, grows into a more and more mild, lofty, impersonalised and universalised personality. This is the ideal character and soul-power of the Brahmana, the priest of knowledge. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 4:15 - Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality #KEYS |
47:Many men think and write through inspiration. From where does it come?
Many! That is indeed a wonderful thing. I did not think there have been so many.... So?
Poets, when they write poems...
Ah! Inspirations come from very many different places. There are inspirations that may be very material, there are inspirations that may be vital, there are inspirations that come from all kinds of mental planes, and there are very, very rare inspirations that come from the higher mind or from a still higher region. All inspirations do not come from the same place. Hence, to be inspired does not necessarily mean that one is a higher be- ing.... One may be inspired also to do and say many stupid things!
What does "inspired" mean?
It means receiving something which is beyond you, which was not within you; to open yourself to an influence which is outside your individual conscious being.
Indeed, one can have also an inspiration to commit a murder! In countries where they decapitate murderers, cut off their heads, this causes a very brutal death which throws out the vital being, not allowing it the time to decompose for coming out of the body; the vital being is violently thrown out of the body, with all its impulses; and generally it goes and lodges itself in one of those present there, men half horrified, half with a kind of unhealthy curiosity. That makes the opening and it enters within. Statistics have proved that most young murderers admit that the impulse came to them when they were present at the death of another murderer. It was an "inspiration", but of a detestable kind.
Fundamentally it is a moment of openness to something which was not within your personal consciousness, which comes from outside and rushes into you and makes you do something. This is the widest formula that can be given.
Now, generally, when people say: "Oh! he is an inspired poet", it means he has received something from high above and expressed it in a remarkable manneR But one should rather say that his inspiration is of a high quality. ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953,#KEYS |
48:The Absolute is beyond personality and beyond impersonality, and yet it is both the Impersonal and the supreme Person and all persons. The Absolute is beyond the distinction of unity and multiplicity, and yet it is the One and the innumerable Many in all the universes. It is beyond all limitation by quality and yet it is not limited by a qualityless void but is too all infinite qualities. It is the individual soul and all souls and more of them; it is the formless Brahman and the universe. It is the cosmic and the supracosmic spirit, the supreme Lord, the supreme Self, the supreme Purusha and supreme shakti, the Ever Unborn who is endlessly born, the Infinite who is innumerably finite, the multitudinous One, the complex Simple, the many-sided Single, the Word of the Silence Ineffable, the impersonal omnipresent Person, the Mystery, translucent in highest consciousness to its own spirit, but to a lesser consciousness veiled in its own exceeding light and impenetrable for ever. These things are to the dimensional mind irreconcilable opposites, but to the constant vision and experience of the supramental Truth-Consciousness they are so simply and inevitably the intrinsic nature of each other that even to think of them as contraries is an unimaginable violence. The walls constructed by the measuring and separating Intellect have disappeared and the Truth in its simplicity and beauty appears and reduces all to terms of its harmony and unity and light. Dimensions and distinctions remain but as figures for use, not a separative prison for the self-forgetting Spirit.
2:In the ordinary Yoga of knowledge it is only necessary to recognise two planes of our consciousness, the spiritual and the materialised mental; the pure reason standing between these two views them both, cuts through the illusions of the phenomenal world, exceeds the materialised mental plane, sees the reality of the spiritual; and then the will of the individual Purusha unifying itself with this poise of knowledge rejects the lower and draws back to the supreme plane, dwells there, loses mind and body, sheds life from it and merges itself in the supreme Purusha, is delivered from individual existence. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 2.01 - The Object of Knowledge,#KEYS |
49:So then let the Adept set this sigil upon all the Words he hath writ in the book of the Works of his Will. And let him then end all, saying: Such are the Words!2 For by this he maketh proclamation before all them that be about his Circle that these Words are true and puissant, binding what he would bind, and loosing what he would loose. Let the Adept perform this ritual right, perfect in every part thereof, once daily for one moon, then twice, at dawn and dusk, for two moons; next thrice, noon added, for three moons; afterwards, midnight making up his course, for four moons four times every day. Then let the Eleventh Moon be consecrated wholly to this Work; let him be instant in constant ardour, dismissing all but his sheer needs to eat and sleep.3 For know that the true Formula4 whose virtue sufficed the Beast in this Attainment, was thus:
INVOKE OFTEN
So may all men come at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel: thus sayeth The Beast, and prayeth his own Angel that this Book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein.
1. There is an alternative spelling, TzBA-F, where the Root, "an Host," has the value of 93. The Practicus should revise this Ritual throughout in the Light of his personal researches in the Qabalah, and make it his own peculiar property. The spelling here suggested implies that he who utters the Word affirms his allegiance to the symbols 93 and 6; that he is a warrior in the army of Will, and of the Sun. 93 is also the number of AIWAZ and 6 of The Beast.
2. The consonants of LOGOS, "Word," add (Hebrew values) to 93 [reading the Sigma as Samekh = 60; reading it as Shin = 300 gives 333], and ΕΠΗ, "Words" (whence "Epic") has also that value; ΕΙ∆Ε ΤΑ ΕΠΗ might be the phrase here intended; its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX, III, 75.
3. These needs are modified during the process of Initiation both as to quantity and quality. One should not become anxious about one's phyiscal or mental health on à priori grounds, but pay attention only to indubitable symptoms of distress should such arise. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh,#KEYS |
| 50:The Godhead, the spirit manifested in Nature appears in a sea of infinite quality, Ananta-guna. But the executive or mechanical prakriti is of the threefold Guna, Sattwa, Rajas, Tamas, and the Ananta-guna, the spiritual play of infinite quality, modifies itself in this mechanical nature into the type of these three gunas. And in the soul-force in man this Godhead in Nature represents itself as a fourfold effective Power, caturvyuha , a Power for knowledge, a Power for strength, a Power for mutuality and active and productive relation and interchange, a Power for works and labour and service, and its presence casts all human life into a nexus and inner and outer operation of these four things. The ancient thought of India conscious of this fourfold type of active human personality and nature, built out of it the four types of the Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra, each with its spiritual turn, ethical ideal, suitable upbringing, fixed function in society and place in the evolutionary scale of the spirit. As always tends to be the case when we too much externalise and mechanise the more subtle truths of our nature, this became a hard and fast system inconsistent with the freedom and variability and complexity of the finer developing spirit in man. Nevertheless the truth behind it exists and is one of some considerable importance in the perfection of our power of nature; but we have to take it in its inner aspects, first, personality, character, temperament, soul-type, then the soul-force which lies behind them and wears these forms, and lastly the play of the free spiritual shakti in which they find their culmination and unity beyond all modes. For the crude external idea that a man is born as a Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Sudra and that alone, is not a psychological truth of our being. The psychological fact is that there are these four active powers and tendencies of the Spirit and its executive shakti within us and the predominance of one or the other in the more well-formed part of our personality gives us our main tendencies, dominant qualities and capacities, effective turn in action and life. But they are more or less present in an men, here manifest, there latent, here developed, there subdued and depressed or subordinate, and in the perfect man will be raised up to a fullness and harmony which in the spiritual freedom will burst out into the free play of the infinite quality of the spirit in the inner and outer life and in the self-enjoying creative play of the Purusha with his and the world's Nature-Power. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, 4:15 - Soul-Force and the Fourfold Personality, #KEYS |
51:The Examiners
The integral yoga consists of an uninterrupted series of examinations that one has to undergo without any previous warning, thus obliging you to be constantly on the alert and attentive.
Three groups of examiners set us these tests. They appear to have nothing to do with one another, and their methods are so different, sometimes even so apparently contradictory, that it seems as if they could not possibly be leading towards the same goal. Nevertheless, they complement one another, work towards the same end, and are all indispensable to the completeness of the result.
The three types of examination are: those set by the forces of Nature, those set by spiritual and divine forces, and those set by hostile forces. These last are the most deceptive in their appearance and to avoid being caught unawares and unprepared requires a state of constant watchfulness, sincerity and humility.
The most commonplace circumstances, the events of everyday life, the most apparently insignificant people and things all belong to one or other of these three kinds of examiners. In this vast and complex organisation of tests, those events that are generally considered the most important in life are the easiest examinations to undergo, because they find you ready and on your guard. It is easier to stumble over the little stones in your path, because they attract no attention.
Endurance and plasticity, cheerfulness and fearlessness are the qualities specially needed for the examinations of physical nature.
Aspiration, trust, idealism, enthusiasm and generous self-giving, for spiritual examinations.
Vigilance, sincerity and humility for the examinations from hostile forces.
And do not imagine that there are on the one hand people who undergo the examinations and on the other people who set them. Depending on the circumstances and the moment we are all both examiners and examinees, and it may even happen that one is at the same time both examiner and examinee. And the benefit one derives from this depends, both in quality and in quantity, on the intensity of one's aspiration and the awakening of one's consciousness.
To conclude, a final piece of advice: never set yourself up as an examiner. For while it is good to remember constantly that one may be undergoing a very important examination, it is extremely dangerous to imagine that one is responsible for setting examinations for others. That is the open door to the most ridiculous and harmful kinds of vanity. It is the Supreme Wisdom which decides these things, and not the ignorant human will. ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II,#KEYS |
52:INVOCATION
The ultimate invocation, that of Kia, cannot be performed. The paradox is that as Kia has no dualized qualities, there are no attributes by which to invoke it. To give it one quality is merely to deny it another. As an observant dualistic being once said:
I am that I am not.
Nevertheless, the magician may need to make some rearrangements or additions to what he is. Metamorphosis may be pursued by seeking that which one is not, and transcending both in mutual annihilation. Alternatively, the process of invocation may be seen as adding to the magician's psyche any elements which are missing. It is true that the mind must be finally surrendered as one enters fully into Chaos, but a complete and balanced psychocosm is more easily surrendered.
The magical process of shuffling beliefs and desires attendant upon the process of invocation also demonstrates that one's dominant obsessions or personality are quite arbitrary, and hence more easily banished.
There are many maps of the mind (psychocosms), most of which are inconsistent, contradictory, and based on highly fanciful theories. Many use the symbology of god forms, for all mythology embodies a psychology. A complete mythic pantheon resumes all of man's mental characteristics. Magicians will often use a pagan pantheon of gods as the basis for invoking some particular insight or ability, as these myths provide the most explicit and developed formulation of the particular idea's extant. However it is possible to use almost anything from the archetypes of the collective unconscious to the elemental qualities of alchemy.
If the magician taps a deep enough level of power, these forms may manifest with sufficient force to convince the mind of the objective existence of the god. Yet the aim of invocation is temporary possession by the god, communication from the god, and manifestation of the god's magical powers, rather than the formation of religious cults.
The actual method of invocation may be described as a total immersion in the qualities pertaining to the desired form. One invokes in every conceivable way. The magician first programs himself into identity with the god by arranging all his experiences to coincide with its nature. In the most elaborate form of ritual he may surround himself with the sounds, smells, colors, instruments, memories, numbers, symbols, music, and poetry suggestive of the god or quality. Secondly he unites his life force to the god image with which he has united his mind. This is accomplished with techniques from the gnosis. Figure 5 shows some examples of maps of the mind. Following are some suggestions for practical ritual invocation.
~ Peter J Carroll, Liber Null,#KEYS |
53:The modern distinction is that the poet appeals to the imagination and not to the intellect. But there are many kinds of imagination; the objective imagination which visualises strongly the outward aspects of life and things; the subjective imagination which visualises strongly the mental and emotional impressions they have the power to start in the mind; the imagination which deals in the play of mental fictions and to which we give the name of poetic fancy; the aesthetic imagination which delights in the beauty of words and images for their own sake and sees no farther. All these have their place in poetry, but they only give the poet his materials, they are only the first instruments in the creation of poetic style. The essential poetic imagination does not stop short with even the most subtle reproductions of things external or internal, with the richest or delicatest play of fancy or with the most beautiful colouring of word or image. It is creative, not of either the actual or the fictitious, but of the more and the most real; it sees the spiritual truth of things, - of this truth too there are many gradations, - which may take either the actual or the ideal for its starting-point. The aim of poetry, as of all true art, is neither a photographic or otherwise realistic imitation of Nature, nor a romantic furbishing and painting or idealistic improvement of her image, but an interpretation by the images she herself affords us, not on one but on many planes of her creation, of that which she conceals from us, but is ready, when rightly approached, to reveal.
This is the true, because the highest and essential aim of poetry; but the human mind arrives at it only by a succession of steps, the first of which seems far enough from its object. It begins by stringing its most obvious and external ideas, feelings and sensations of things on a thread of verse in a sufficient language of no very high quality. But even when it gets to a greater adequacy and effectiveness, it is often no more than a vital, an emotional or an intellectual adequacy and effectiveness. There is a strong vital poetry which powerfully appeals to our sensations and our sense of life, like much of Byron or the less inspired mass of the Elizabethan drama; a strong emotional poetry which stirs our feelings and gives us the sense and active image of the passions; a strong intellectual poetry which satisfies our curiosity about life and its mechanism, or deals with its psychological and other "problems", or shapes for us our thoughts in an effective, striking and often quite resistlessly quotable fashion. All this has its pleasures for the mind and the surface soul in us, and it is certainly quite legitimate to enjoy them and to enjoy them strongly and vividly on our way upward; but if we rest content with these only, we shall never get very high up the hill of the Muses.
~ Sri Aurobindo, The Future Poetry,#KEYS |
54:Eternal, unconfined, unextended, without cause and without effect, the Holy Lamp mysteriously burns. Without quantity or quality, unconditioned and sempiternal, is this Light.
It is not possible for anyone to advise or approve; for this Lamp is not made with hands; it exists alone for ever; it has no parts, no person; it is before "I am." Few can behold it, yet it is always there. For it there is no "here" nor "there," no "then" nor "now;" all parts of speech are abolished, save the noun; and this noun is not found either in {106} human speech or in Divine. It is the Lost Word, the dying music of whose sevenfold echo is I A O and A U M.
Without this Light the Magician could not work at all; yet few indeed are the Magicians that have know of it, and far fewer They that have beheld its brilliance!
The Temple and all that is in it must be destroyed again and again before it is worthy to receive that Light. Hence it so often seems that the only advice that any master can give to any pupil is to destroy the Temple.
"Whatever you have" and "whatever you are" are veils before that Light. Yet in so great a matter all advice is vain. There is no master so great that he can see clearly the whole character of any pupil. What helped him in the past may hinder another in the future.
Yet since the Master is pledged to serve, he may take up that service on these simple lines. Since all thoughts are veils of this Light, he may advise the destruction of all thoughts, and to that end teach those practices which are clearly conductive to such destruction.
These practices have now fortunately been set down in clear language by order of the A.'.A.'..
In these instructions the relativity and limitation of each practice is clearly taught, and all dogmatic interpretations are carefully avoided. Each practice is in itself a demon which must be destroyed; but to be destroyed it must first be evoked.
Shame upon that Master who shirks any one of these practices, however distasteful or useless it may be to him! For in the detailed knowledge of it, which experience alone can give him, may lie his opportunity for crucial assistance to a pupil. However dull the drudgery, it should be undergone. If it were possible to regret anything in life, which is fortunately not the case, it would be the hours wasted in fruitful practices which might have been more profitably employed on sterile ones: for NEMO<> in tending his garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be NEMO after him. And we are not told that NEMO might have used other things than those which he actually does use; it seems possible that if he had not the acid or the knife, or the fire, or the oil, he might miss tending just that one flower which was to be NEMO after him! ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA, The Lamp,#KEYS |
55:On that spring day in the park I saw a young woman who attracted me. She was tall and slender, elegantly dressed, and had an intelligent and boyish face. I liked her at once. She was my type and began to fill my imagination. She probably was not much older than I but seemed far more mature, well-defined, a full-grown woman, but with a touch of exuberance and boyishness in her face, and this was what I liked above all .
I had never managed to approach a girl with whom I had fallen in love, nor did I manage in this case. But the impression she made on me was deeper than any previous one had been and the infatuation had a profound influence on my life.
Suddenly a new image had risen up before me, a lofty and cherished image. And no need, no urge was as deep or as fervent within me as the craving to worship and admire. I gave her the name Beatrice, for, even though I had not read Dante, I knew about Beatrice from an English painting of which I owned a reproduction. It showed a young pre-Raphaelite woman, long-limbed and slender, with long head and etherealized hands and features. My beautiful young woman did not quite resemble her, even though she, too, revealed that slender and boyish figure which I loved, and something of the ethereal, soulful quality of her face.
Although I never addressed a single word to Beatrice, she exerted a profound influence on me at that time. She raised her image before me, she gave me access to a holy shrine, she transformed me into a worshiper in a temple.
From one day to the next I stayed clear of all bars and nocturnal exploits. I could be alone with myself again and enjoyed reading and going for long walks.
My sudden conversion drew a good deal of mockery in its wake. But now I had something I loved and venerated, I had an ideal again, life was rich with intimations of mystery and a feeling of dawn that made me immune to all taunts. I had come home again to myself, even if only as the slave and servant of a cherished image.
I find it difficult to think back to that time without a certain fondness. Once more I was trying most strenuously to construct an intimate "world of light" for myself out of the shambles of a period of devastation; once more I sacrificed everything within me to the aim of banishing darkness and evil from myself. And, furthermore, this present "world of light" was to some extent my own creation; it was no longer an escape, no crawling back to -nether and the safety of irresponsibility; it was a new duty, one I had invented and desired on my own, with responsibility and self-control. My sexuality, a torment from which I was in constant flight, was to be transfigured nto spirituality and devotion by this holy fire. Everything :brk and hateful was to be banished, there were to be no more tortured nights, no excitement before lascivious picures, no eavesdropping at forbidden doors, no lust. In place of all this I raised my altar to the image of Beatrice, :.. and by consecrating myself to her I consecrated myself to the spirit and to the gods, sacrificing that part of life which I withdrew from the forces of darkness to those of light. My goal was not joy but purity, not happiness but beauty, and spirituality.
This cult of Beatrice completely changed my life.
~ Hermann Hesse, Demian,#KEYS |
56:
Mother, when one imagines something, does it not exist?
When you imagine something, it means that you make a mental formation which may be close to the truth or far from the truth - it also depends upon the quality of your formation. You make a mental formation and there are people who have such a power of formation that they succeed in making what they imagine real. There are not many of these but there are some. They imagine something and their formation is so well made and so powerful that it succeeds in being realised. These are creators; there are not many of them but there are some.
If one thinks of someone who doesn't exist or who is dead?
Ah! What do you mean? What have you just said? Someone who doesn't exist or someone who is dead? These are two absolutely different things.
I mean someone who is dead.
Someone who is dead!
If this person has remained in the mental domain, you can find him immediately. Naturally if he is no longer in the mental domain, if he is in the psychic domain, to think of him is not enough. You must know how to go into the psychic domain to find him. But if he has remained in the mental domain and you think of him, you can find him immediately, and not only that, but you can have a mental contact with him and a kind of mental vision of his existence.
The mind has a capacity of vision of its own and it is not the same vision as with these eyes, but it is a vision, it is a perception in forms. But this is not imagination. It has nothing to do with imagination.
Imagination, for instance, is when you begin to picture to yourself an ideal being to whom you apply all your conceptions, and when you tell yourself, "Why, it should be like this, like that, its form should be like this, its thought like that, its character like that," when you see all the details and build up the being. Now, writers do this all the time because when they write a novel, they imagine. There are those who take things from life but there are those who are imaginative, creators; they create a character, a personage and then put him in their book later. This is to imagine. To imagine, for example, a whole concurrence of circumstances, a set of events, this is what I call telling a story to oneself. But it can be put down on paper, and then one becomes a novelist. There are very different kinds of writers. Some imagine everything, some gather all sorts of observations from life and construct their book with them. There are a hundred ways of writing a book. But indeed some writers imagine everything from beginning to end. It all comes out of their head and they construct even their whole story without any support in things physically observed. This truly is imagination. But as I say, if they are very powerful and have a considerable capacity for creation, it is possible that one day or other there will be a physical human being who realises their creation. This too is true.
What do you suppose imagination is, eh? Have you never imagined anything, you?
And what happens?
All that one imagines.
You mean that you imagine something and it happens like that, eh? Or it is in a dream...
What is the function, the use of the imagination?
If one knows how to use it, as I said, one can create for oneself his own inner and outer life; one can build his own existence with his imagination, if one knows how to use it and has a power. In fact it is an elementary way of creating, of forming things in the world. I have always felt that if one didn't have the capacity of imagination he would not make any progress. Your imagination always goes ahead of your life. When you think of yourself, usually you imagine what you want to be, don't you, and this goes ahead, then you follow, then it continues to go ahead and you follow. Imagination opens for you the path of realisation. People who are not imaginative - it is very difficult to make them move; they see just what is there before their nose, they feel just what they are moment by moment and they cannot go forward because they are clamped by the immediate thing. It depends a good deal on what one calls imagination. However...
Men of science must be having imagination!
A lot. Otherwise they would never discover anything. In fact, what is called imagination is a capacity to project oneself outside realised things and towards things realisable, and then to draw them by the projection. One can obviously have progressive and regressive imaginations. There are people who always imagine all the catastrophes possible, and unfortunately they also have the power of making them come. It's like the antennae going into a world that's not yet realised, catching something there and drawing it here. Then naturally it is an addition to the earth atmosphere and these things tend towards manifestation. It is an instrument which can be disciplined, can be used at will; one can discipline it, direct it, orientate it. It is one of the faculties one can develop in himself and render serviceable, that is, use it for definite purposes.
Sweet Mother, can one imagine the Divine and have the contact?
Certainly if you succeed in imagining the Divine you have the contact, and you can have the contact with what you imagine, in any case. In fact it is absolutely impossible to imagine something which doesn't exist somewhere. You cannot imagine anything at all which doesn't exist somewhere. It is possible that it doesn't exist on the earth, it is possible that it's elsewhere, but it is impossible for you to imagine something which is not already contained in principle in the universe; otherwise it could not occur.
Then, Sweet Mother, this means that in the created universe nothing new is added?
In the created universe? Yes. The universe is progressive; we said that constantly things manifest, more and more. But for your imagination to be able to go and seek beyond the manifestation something which will be manifested, well, it may happen, in fact it does - I was going to tell you that it is in this way that some beings can cause considerable progress to be made in the world, because they have the capacity of imagining something that's not yet manifested. But there are not many. One must first be capable of going beyond the manifested universe to be able to imagine something which is not there. There are already many things which can be imagined.
What is our terrestrial world in the universe? A very small thing. Simply to have the capacity of imagining something which does not exist in the terrestrial manifestation is already very difficult, very difficult. For how many billions of years hasn't it existed, this little earth? And there have been no two identical things. That's much. It is very difficult to go out from the earth atmosphere with one's mind; one can, but it is very difficult. And then if one wants to go out, not only from the earth atmosphere but from the universal life!
To be able simply to enter into contact with the life of the earth in its totality from the formation of the earth until now, what can this mean? And then to go beyond this and enter into contact with universal life from its beginnings up to now... and then again to be able to bring something new into the universe, one must go still farther beyond.
Not easy!
That's all?
(To the child) Convinced?
~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1955, [T1],#KEYS |
57:[The Gods and Their Worlds]
[...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.
This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.
There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.
All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.
One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.
Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.
But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.
When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.
Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!
I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.
Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!
These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.
In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.
If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.
If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958
~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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58:The Science of Living
To know oneself and to control oneself
AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.
Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.
To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.
As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.
All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.
In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.
To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.
Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.
There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.
Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.
Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.
In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.
When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.
Bulletin, November 1950
~ The Mother, On Education, #KEYS |
*** WISDOM TROVE *** |
| 1:Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 2:Quality brands never go bankrupt. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 3:Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 4:The quality of life is determined by its activities. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 5:Your habits will determine your quality of life. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 6:Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 7:The first quality that is needed is audacity. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove |
| 8:In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 9:The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 10:Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove |
| 11:It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove |
| 12:“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” ~ william-james, @wisdomtrove |
| 13:Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove |
| 14:Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 15:less is he acquainted with its nature and quality. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 16:The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 17:The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 18:You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove |
| 19:Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove |
| 20:People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. ~ moliere, @wisdomtrove |
| 21:When you love, you should always watch the quality of your love. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 22:We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 23:Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove |
| 24:An intention is a quality of consciousness that you bring to an action. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove |
| 25:Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove |
| 26:Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 27:It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove |
| 28:Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 29:The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 30:God is without form, without quality as well as with form and quality. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove |
| 31:The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 32:The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 33:A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 34:The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 35:Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 36:To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove |
| 37:Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 38:... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 39:There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove |
| 40:Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 41:Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 42:A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove |
| 43:Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. — Patch Adams ~ robin-williams, @wisdomtrove |
| 44:Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove |
| 45:What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 46:Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 47:There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 48:A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 49:Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 50:Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 51:The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness. ~ anthony-de-mello, @wisdomtrove |
| 52:It's quantity of time at home and quality of time at work that counts; don't mix them up! ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 53:Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others. ~ john-wooden, @wisdomtrove |
| 54:Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 55:Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ~ mahatma-gandhi, @wisdomtrove |
| 56:Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 57:Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 58:The main quality of leadership... ... ... .is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it! ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove |
| 59:The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 60:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 61:Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove |
| 62:Your success is directly proportional to the quality of the relationships in your life. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove |
| 63:The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 64:How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 65:In effect, the negativity bias is tilted toward immediate survival, but against quality of life. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 66:Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 67:Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 68:For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 69:Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 70:Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 71:I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 72:Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove |
| 73:One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove |
| 74:Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 75:The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove |
| 76:Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 77:Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 78:If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 79:It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove |
| 80:There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove |
| 81:Whether were talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 82:Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove |
| 83:Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove |
| 84:Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ~ booker-t-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 85:The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 86:Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove |
| 87:This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 88:Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 89:It is never possible to love a person or an object. Love is defined precisely by its unconditional quality. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove |
| 90:Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 91:Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 92:Moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove |
| 93:The & |
| 94:You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 95:I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove |
| 96:It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove |
| 97:The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 98:A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 99:The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 100:The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove |
| 101:There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye. ~ tim-ferris, @wisdomtrove |
| 102:Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 103:The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove |
| 104:The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 105:The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 106:Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 107:One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 108:The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 109:We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 110:Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 111:Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 112:To be what I term a & |
| 113:Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 114:Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 115:Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. ~ william-somerset-maugham, @wisdomtrove |
| 116:The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much & |
| 117:The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love? ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove |
| 118:To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 119:It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 120:Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ winston-churchill, @wisdomtrove |
| 121:How we pay attention to the present moment... determin es the character of our experience and... the quality of our lives. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove |
| 122: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 123:I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove |
| 124:My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. ~ thomas-edison, @wisdomtrove |
| 125:Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 126:The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 127:To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 128:Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 129:Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 130:You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 131:First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 132:What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 133:Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 134:Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove |
| 135:One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 136:The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 137:The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 138: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. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 139:The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 140:What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 141:Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 142:How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive? ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 143:If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove |
| 144:The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 145:to be genuinely interested in other people is a most important quality for a sales-person to possess—for any person, for that matter. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 146:Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 147:Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach – how you look at things. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 148:It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 149:There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove |
| 150:God's Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 151:I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 152:The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove |
| 153:Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 154:It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 155:Meta-Algorithmics: Patterns for Robust, Low Cost, High Quality Systems by Steven J. Simske, John Wiley & Sons, (p. 272), May 28, 2013. ~ salvador-dali, @wisdomtrove |
| 156:Perfection, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove |
| 157:Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove |
| 158:I was thought to be & |
| 159:Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 160:Then, as horizons step, Or noons report away,Without the formula of sound, It passes, and we stay:A quality of loss Affecting our content. ~ emily-dickinson, @wisdomtrove |
| 161:We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 162:You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 163:All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 164:Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Be persistent, persistent, persistent... and have a grateful heart! ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove |
| 165:If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove |
| 166:It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 167:A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 168:Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 169:The more you discipline yourself to use your time well, the happier you will feel and the better will be the quality of your life in every area. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 170:Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove |
| 171: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. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 172:I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 173:The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. ~ d-t-suzuki, @wisdomtrove |
| 174:The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove |
| 175:Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove |
| 176:The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 177:Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality. ~ emanuel-swedenborg, @wisdomtrove |
| 178:And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 179:There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity. ~ maya-angelou, @wisdomtrove |
| 180:A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 181:We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 182:We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove |
| 183:An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil. ~ sivananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 184:It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 185:Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean & |
| 186:Attention is what creates value. Artworks are made as well by how people interact with them - and therefore by what quality of interaction they can inspire. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove |
| 187:Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that is all right. You don't have to tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove |
| 188:There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. ~ henry-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 189:Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%. ~ susan-jeffers, @wisdomtrove |
| 190:I can play the guitar, the dulcimer, the piano, and the drums. However, I am not a "performance quality" musician. Rather, I am a composer and a producer. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 191:If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 192:There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 193:Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove |
| 194:If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 195:When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is & |
| 196:Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 197:A good shot must necessarily be a good man since the essence of good marksmanship is self-control and self-control is the essential quality of a good man. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 198:A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 199:Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life ~ mata-amritanandamayi, @wisdomtrove |
| 200:The race for Quality has no finish line - so technically, it's more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 201:You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 202:When there is hope in the future, there is power in the present, and since hope is the foundational quality of all change, there is considerable reason to be excited. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove |
| 203:While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 204:The first quality of courage is the willingness to launch with no guarantees. The second quality of courage is the ability to endure when there is no success in sight. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 205:We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 206:If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove |
| 207:The predominant quality of successful people is optimism... . Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 208:Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 209:A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove |
| 210:I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly. ~ walt-disney, @wisdomtrove |
| 211:We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 212:When doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of Being, that is success. Unless Being flows into doing, unless you are present, you lose yourself in whatever you do. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 213:The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 214:You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 215:The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 216:Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 217:Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove |
| 218:You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 219:A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 220:God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove |
| 221:The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove |
| 222:The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 223:Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 224:Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove |
| 225:The question & |
| 226:The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 227:If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove |
| 228:The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 229:I have said that each aspect of the novel demands a different quality of the reader. Well, the prophetic aspect demands two qualities: humility and the suspension of the sense of humour. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove |
| 230:Just as ice is nothing but water, so the Beloved is without form, without quality, and the question of manifestation does not arise. When this is realized, one has realized one’s Self. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove |
| 231:Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment. And what is that? There is a sense of quality in what you do, even the most simple action. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 232:Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get." Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 233:The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 234:We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 235:Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 236:The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 237:If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 238:She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove |
| 239:The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove |
| 240:I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove |
| 241:Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove |
| 242:Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove |
| 243:The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" - which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 244:The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 245:Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove |
| 246:The proper stuff of fiction' does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 247:Surrender is perfectly compatible with taking action, initiating change, or achieving goals. But in the surrendered state a totally different energy, a different quality, flows into your doing. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 248:Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 249:We do seminars, sometimes, for 7,000 people. These are people, predominantly women, who are seeking, who want to know more, who want to improve the quality of their lives, who want to find themselves. ~ louise-hay, @wisdomtrove |
| 250:The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 251:Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul. ~ ambrose-bierce, @wisdomtrove |
| 252:So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 253:What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 254:The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 255:From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 256:I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 257:She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 258:True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought". ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove |
| 259:Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 260:The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality. ~ rupert-sheldrake, @wisdomtrove |
| 261:The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove |
| 262:After all these years of listening it seems to me that the essential quality of the human soul is uniqueness. Each of us is one of a kind. None of us has existed in the history of the human race before. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove |
| 263:The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 264:When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove |
| 265: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 266:I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 267:When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-sr, @wisdomtrove |
| 268:As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 269:If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 270:America's economic strength depends on industry's ability to improve productivity and quality and to remain on the cutting edge of technology, and that's why the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is so important. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 271: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 272:Every day, each of us makes a multitude of choices that will impact our lives... the quality of our choices will dictate whether we will struggle in frustration or live an extraordinary life& |
| 273:The independence and rebelliousness of our adolescence offer us yet another quality essential to our practice; the insistence that we find out the truth for ourselves, accepting no one's word above our own experience. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 274:It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 275: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 276:Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove |
| 277:For the artist, the color, the bouquet, the tinkling of the spoon on the saucer, are things in the highest degree. He stops at the quality of the sound or the form. He returns to it constantly and is enchanted with it. ~ jean-paul-sartre, @wisdomtrove |
| 278:The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove |
| 279:He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions ‚ not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 280:I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove |
| 281:Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 282:If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking. ~ robert-h-schuller, @wisdomtrove |
| 283:I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove |
| 284:It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. ~ robert-louis-stevenson, @wisdomtrove |
| 285:There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove |
| 286:A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove |
| 287:The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality. ~ soren-kierkegaard, @wisdomtrove |
| 288:Don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experience ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 289:Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove |
| 290:My world is an open world, common to all, accessible to all. In my world there is community, insight, love, real quality; the individual is the total, the totality - in the individual. All are one and the One is all. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 291:Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove |
| 292:We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 293:A mission statement holds the key to producing quality-of-life enhancing results and generating a genuine and deep passion for life. Stephen Covey ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 294:Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove |
| 295:For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 296:When it comes to our health, there are essentially four things under our control: the decision not to smoke, a commitment to exercise, the quality of our diet, and our level of optimism. And optimism is at least as beneficial as the others. ~ martin-seligman, @wisdomtrove |
| 297:Your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 298:Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 299:In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove |
| 300:Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 301:People don't trust conglomerates; they trust individuals. Network marketing brings trust and the quality of the relationship to the center of the business. And it enables you to expand indefinitely, simply by expanding the number of relationships. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 302:Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of your life and uplift your spirit. Questions create answers - even where they seemingly do not exist. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove |
| 303:Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove |
| 304:Life management begins with mind management. The quality of your life is influenced by the quality of your thoughts. Your thoughts do form your world. Scarce thoughts create a life of scarcity. Thoughts of abundance lead to abundant circumstances. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 305:Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 306: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. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 307:Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove |
| 308:Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that the peculiar quality of this secondary world (if not all the details) are derived from Reality, or are flowing into it. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove |
| 309:Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove |
| 310:People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 311:What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove |
| 312:The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 313:The quality of love and the duration of a relationship are in direct proportion to the depth of the commitment by both people to making the relationship successful. Commit yourself wholeheartedly and unconditionally to the most important people in your life. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 314:All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are sides, and it is necessary for one side to beat another side. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 315:By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others and the nature of the experiences of your life. ~ gary-zukav, @wisdomtrove |
| 316:Through non-resistance, the quality of your consciousness and, therefore, the quality of whatever you are doing or creating is enhanced immeasurably. The results will then look after themselves and reflect that quality. We could call this surrendered action. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 317:No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 318:Quality relationships are built on principles - especially the principle of trust. And trust grows out of trustworthiness, out of the character to make and keep commitments, to share resources, to be caring and responsible, to belong, to love unconditionally. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 319:Every man gravitates to where he belongs in life, just as surely as water seeks and finds its level. His position is measured precisely by the quality and quantity of the service he renders, plus the mental attitude with which he relates himself to other people. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 320:Until self-effacing men return again to spiritual leadership, we may expect a progressive deterioration in the quality of popular Christianity year after year till we reach the point where the grieved Holy Spirit withdraws - like the Shekinah from the temple. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 321:One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove |
| 322:We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 323:Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove |
| 324:The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove |
| 325:How we see and hold the full range of our experiences in our minds and in our hearts makes an enormous difference in the quality of this journey we are on and what it means to us. It can influence where we go, what happens, what we learn, and how we feel along the way. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove |
| 326:All morality depends upon our sentiments; and when any action or quality of the mind pleases us after a certain manner we say it is virtuous; and when the neglect or nonperformance of it displeases us after a like manner, we say that we lie under an obligation to perform it. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 327:One has a more practical survival level, that's the mind function. The heart function obviously has an internal level that has to do with the quality of developing perceptions, feelings, the self. And the spirit level has to do with the pondering part of our lives. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove |
| 328:A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential. ~ audrey-hepburn, @wisdomtrove |
| 329:Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove |
| 330:Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 331:Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove |
| 332:Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 333:When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 334:But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 335:A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 336:every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we require critics to explain the one and biographers to expound the other. That time hangs heavy on people's hands is the only explanation of the monstrous growth. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 337:Reputation is what people expect us to do next. It's their expectation of the quality and character of the next thing we produce or say or do. We control our actions (even when it feels like we don't) and our actions over time (especially when we think no one is looking) earn our reputation. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove |
| 338:The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element - learning. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 339:it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove |
| 340:What matters is that you meditate, you're seeking enlightenment, you're on the pathway to enlightenment, and you're having fun. Don't look for reassurance in the eyes of others. Look for reassurance in your own eyes. Only you know if Buddhist practice is improving the quality of your life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove |
| 341:When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful side effects emerge that add to the outcomes of their efforts and the quality of their life. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove |
| 342:It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 343:If the government go for the lowest-common-denominator approach, I don't think we will want to be involved. There's a danger the government will just go for the biggest return to the Treasury and not be interested in overcrowding issues, the quality of the food and the quality of the service. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove |
| 344:I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in? ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 345:We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 346:A person’s quality-of-life arises from living a life which is aligned with character traits and principles which have formed the foundation of every great person or society in history. This goes beyond values, practices or religion to the laws at the heart of happiness and quality- of- life. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 347:Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality. We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 348:I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove |
| 349:How do you tell a valuable French book?' & |
| 350:Whatever inspires you is an aspect of yourself. Any desire of the heart exists to support you in discovering and manifesting it. If you have an aspiration to be something, it is because you have the potential to manifest the quality you are seeing and the behavior that this quality will bring forth. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 351:In the United States... politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 352:True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 353:In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 354:A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street (a community in which quality control is not prized) will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove |
| 355:I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 356: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, @wisdomtrove |
| 357:There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 358:One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to & |
| 359:The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 360:When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove |
| 361:People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove |
| 362:Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 363:We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 364:God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove |
| 365:The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove |
| 366:Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove |
| 367:Churches are more prosperous than at any time within the past several hundred years. But the alarming thing is that our gains are mostly external and our losses wholly internal; and since it is the quality of our religion that is affected by internal conditions, it may be that our supposed gains are but losses spread over a wider field. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 368:There is no quality that we respond to in another that we lack. It might be hidden behind some bad behavior or an old, outdated shadow belief that says we are the exact opposite of what we are seeing in the other person. But I promise you that if you are attracted to a quality in someone else, no matter how great, it also exists inside of you. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove |
| 369:Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 370:France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 371:... Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove |
| 372:The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove |
| 373:Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. ~ oliver-goldsmith, @wisdomtrove |
| 374:Whatever you do, you will be doing extraordinarily well, because the doing itself becomes the focal point of your attention. Your doing then becomes a channel through which consciousness enters this world. This means there is quality in what you do, even in the most simple action, like turning the pages in the phone book or walking across the room. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 375:I'd always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life. ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove |
| 376:When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 377:An effective mission statement: Is an expression of your own unique capacities. Inspires you rather than impresses anyone else. Is based on true principles which produce quality-of-life. Includes the physical, social, mental & spiritual areas. Deals with what you want to be and do with your life. Balances all the significant roles of your life. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 378:When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction. ~ georg-wilhelm-friedrich-hegel, @wisdomtrove |
| 379:I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the local school districts, where we built the greatest public school system the world has ever seen. I think I can make a case that the decline in the quality of public education began when federal aid became federal interference. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 380:I write for myself, and perhaps for half a dozen friends. And that should be enough. And that might improve the quality of my writing. But if I were writing for thousands of people, then I would write what might please them. And as I know nothing about them, and maybe I'd have a rather low opinion of them, I don't think that would do any good to my work. ~ jorge-luis-borges, @wisdomtrove |
| 381:The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 382:Our approach is to think of companies not as businesses but as collections of people. We [Apple]want to qualitatively change the way people work. We don't just want to help them do word processing faster or add numbers faster. We want to change the way they can communicate with one another. We're seeing less paper flying around and more quality of communication. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove |
| 383:Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove |
| 384:Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove |
| 385:For any question you pose, your brain provides an answer. Always make questions positive, actionable and constructive. Questions are lasers of human consciousness. Their power can cut through any obstacle. Ask empowering questions that will increase the quality of your life and uplift your spirit. Questions create answers - even where they seemingly do not exist. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove |
| 386:The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 387:What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness& |
| 388:Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 389:Our philosophy about activity and our attitude about hard work will affect the quality of our lives. What we decide about the rightful ratio of labor to rest will establish a certain work ethic. That work ethic - our attitude about the amount of labor we are willing to commit to future fortune - will determine how substantial or how meager that fortune turns out to be. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove |
| 390:Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the most distant idea of it, consider'd as a quality in bodies. Either we have no idea of necessity, or necessity is nothing but that determination of thought to pass from cause to effects and effects to causes, according to their experienc'd union. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove |
| 391:Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 392:The sincere love of books has nothing to do with cleverness or stupidity any more than any other sincere love. It is a quality of character, a freshness, a power of pleasure, a power of faith. A silly person may delight in reading masterpieces just as a silly person may delight in picking flowers. A fool may be in love with a poet as he may be in love with a woman. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 393:That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 394:The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person. ~ sri-chinmoy, @wisdomtrove |
| 395:For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the & |
| 396:Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. ~ rajneesh, @wisdomtrove |
| 397:We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove |
| 398:A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove |
| 399:However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not & |
| 400:Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences... That solves a lot of problems ... Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen ... [W]hat makes a work of art & |
| 401:Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove |
| 402:An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove |
| 403:Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove |
| 404:Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more. ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove |
| 405:The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts. ~ susan-sontag, @wisdomtrove |
| 406:What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove |
| 407:It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 408:I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 409:One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner& |
| 410:A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove |
| 411:Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove |
| 412:61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove |
| 413:If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching. ~ virginia-woolf, @wisdomtrove |
| 414:God is without form, without quality as well as with form and quality. Watch and see with what endless variety of beautiful forms He plays the play of his maya with Himself alone. The lila of the all pervading One goes on and on in this way in infinite diversity. He is without beginning and without end. He is the whole and also the part. The whole and part together make up real Perfection. Sri Anandamayi Ma ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove |
| 415:This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning‚îfrom "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove |
| 416:Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 417:This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove |
| 418:. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. Lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove |
| 419:Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. Yet do not confuse desire with expectation, or with need. Desire has an entirely different quality to it. You can desire something without needing or requiring it. That little difference makes everything work. That little difference is the whole trick. Desire, do not Require. To desire propels. To require compels. Life will not be compelled, but it can be coaxed. ~ neale-donald-walsch, @wisdomtrove |
| 420:I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove |
| 421:Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove |
| 422:You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove |
| 423:Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful - you'll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you're most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive - to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove |
| 424:Do what you have to do. In the meantime, accept what is. Since mind and resistance are synonymous, acceptance immediately frees you from mind dominance and thus reconnects you with Being. As a result, the usual ego motivations for “doing” – fear, greed, control, defending or feeding the false sense of self – will cease to operate. An intelligence much greater than the mind is now in charge, and so a different quality of consciousness will flow into your doing. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 425:Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove |
| 426:Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove |
| 427:We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything stinks. We all believe, Hey, maybe this one wont stink. We are a hopeful species. Stupid but hopeful. But were happy in that moment between the commercial and the purchase. And I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy. ~ jerry-seinfeld, @wisdomtrove |
| 428:Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues& |
| 429:The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 430:Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It's the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a variety of positive effects. Grateful people tend to be more empathetic and forgiving of others. People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove |
| 431:We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove |
| 432:Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom of our words that we are able to affect the most profound changes in the people around us. When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness. Our listening creates sanctuary for the homeless parts within the other person. That which has been denied, unloved, devalued by themselves and others. That which is hidden. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove |
| 433:The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says & |
| 434:There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove |
| 435:What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove |
| 436:The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without . . . the average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove |
| 437:What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 438:Instead of waiting for the big things to happen – marriage, kids, big promotion, winning the lottery – find happiness in the small things that happen every day. Little things like having a quiet cup of coffee in the early morning, or the delicious taste and smell of a homemade meal, or the pleasure of sharing something you enjoy with someone else, or holding hands with your partner. Noticing these small pleasures on a daily basis makes a big difference in the quality of your life. ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove |
| 439:Realise that your entire life journey ultimately consists of the step you are taking at this moment. There is always only this one step, and so you give it your fullest attention. This doesn't mean you don't know where you are going; it just means this step is primary, the destination secondary. And what you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove |
| 440:The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat characters ... in their purest form ... are constructed round a single idea or quality; when there is more than one factor to them, we get the beginning of the curve toward the round. The really flat character can be experessed in one sentence such as, "I will never desert Mr Micawber." There is Mrs Micawber - she says she won't desert Mr Micawber; she doesn't, and there she is. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove |
| 441:Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove |
| 442:. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste of fall, it’s cool, there’s a lambence, a soft, a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and - from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it’s gone. . .the title reminded me of that time, of a luminosity older than our Christian civilization. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove |
| 443:People who have life-challenging experiences who choose to remain invested in a consistent catastrophic interpretation are not the ones I meet. I have met many more people who have recognized how vital it is to their healing and to the quality of their life to interpret their experiences differently. That is why some of the people I've met who have life-challenging illnesses are much happier than some people I've known who are physically quite healthy and yet who live lives of greater desperation and depression. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove |
| 444:If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love. ~ jack-kornfield, @wisdomtrove |
| 445:.. is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove |
| 446:Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. ~ hannah-arendt, @wisdomtrove |
| 447:Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success - of any kind! ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove |
| 448:Do, each day, all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork-or to rush blindly into your work, trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible amount of time. Don't try to do tomorrow's-or next week's-work today. It's not so much the number of the things you do but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that counts. . . . you need only to succeed in the small tasks of each day. This makes a successful day. With enough of these, you have a successful week, month, year-and lifetime. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove |
| 449:There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove |
| 450:People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove |
| 451:When a thing is bought not for its use but for its costliness, cheapness is no recommendation. As Sismondi remarks, the consequence of cheapening articles of vanity, is not that less is expended on such things, but that the buyers substitute for the cheapened article some other which is more costly, or a more elaborate quality of the same thing; and as the inferior quality answered the purpose of vanity equally well when it was equally expensive, a tax on the article is really paid by nobody: it is a creation of public revenue by which nobody loses. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove |
| 452:What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spirit was preceded by careful preparation. When we approach with reverence, great things decide to approach us. Our real life comes to the surface and its light awakens the concealed beauty in things. When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. The rushed heart and arrogant mind lack the gentleness and patience to enter that embrace. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 453:He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced& |
| 454:Nobody is publicly accepted as an expert on poetry unless he displays the sign of poet, mathematician, etc., but universal men want no sign and make hardly any distinction between the crafts of poet and embroiderer. Universal men are not called poets or mathematicians, etc. But they are all these things and judges of them too. No one could guess what they are, and they will talk about whatever was being talked about when they came in. One quality is not more noticeable in them than another, unless it becomes necessary to put it into practice, and then we remember it. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove |
| 455:The real trouble is that & |
| 456:Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " & |
| 457:The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove |
| 458:A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 459:One-pointed intention is that quality of attention that is unbending in its fixity of purpose. One- pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. This is the power of detached awareness and one-pointed, focused intention simultaneously. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove |
| 460:And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers& |
| 461:Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self- observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self- acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove |
| 462:The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation enacted by the Congress, as well as the decisions made by me and by the department and agency heads, must all be implemented by the career men and women in the Federal service. In foreign affairs, national defense, science and technology, and a host of other fields, they face problems of unprecedented importance and perplexity. We are all dependent on their sense of loyalty and responsibility as well as their competence and energy. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove |
| 463:If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure it, to let it become something creative and positive that contributes to who you are. Nietzche said that one of the best days in his life was the day when he rebaptized all his negative qualities as his best qualities. Rather than banishing what is at first glimpse unwelcome, you bring it home to unity with your life…..One of your sacred duties is to exercise kindness towrd them. In a sense, you are called to be a loving parent to your delinquent qualiites ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 464:It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" -she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should& |
| 465:To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you want to gain or to have power or happiness. Now this destroys true criticism. Your desire is perverted through attributing values, and therefore you cannot see clearly. Instead of trying to see the flower in its original and entire beauty, you look at it through coloured glasses, and therefore you can never see it as it is. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove |
| 466:Within the grip of winter, it is almost impossible to imagine the spring. The gray perished landscape is shorn of color. Only bleakness meets the eye; everything seems severe and edged. Winter is the oldest season; it has some quality of the absolute. Yet beneath the surface of winter, the miracle of spring is already in preparation; the cold is relenting; seeds are wakening up. Colors are beginning to imagine how they will return. Then, imperceptibly, somewhere one bud opens and the symphony of renewal is no longer reversible. From the black heart of winter a miraculous, breathing plenitude of color emerges. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove |
| 467:There is no class of substance to which the Brahman belongs, no common genus. It cannot therefore be denoted by words which, like “being” in the ordinary sense, signify a category of things. Nor can it be denoted by quality, for it is without qualities; nor yet by activity because it is without activity—“at rest, without parts or activity,” according to the Scriptures. Neither can it be denoted by relationship, for it is “without a second” and is not the object of anything but its own self. Therefore it cannot be defined by word or idea; as the Scripture says, it is the One “before whom words recoil.” Shankara” ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove |
| 468:We say that the cause of all things, who is Himself above all things, is neither without being nor without life, nor without reason nor without intelligence; nor is He a body nor has He form or shape, or quality or quantity or mass; He is not localised or visible or tangible; He is neither sensitive nor sensible; He is subject to no disorder or disturbance arising from material passion; He is not subject to failure of power, or to the accidents of sensible things; He needs no light; He suffers no change or corruption or division, or privation or flux; and He neither has nor is anything else that belongs to the senses. ~ pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite, @wisdomtrove |
| 469:Turn positive facts into positive experiences. Good things keep happening all around us, but much of the time we don’t notice them; even when we do, we often hardly feel them. Someone is nice to you, you see an admirable quality in yourself, a flower is blooming, you finish a difficult project—and it all just rolls by. Instead, actively look for good news, particularly the little stuff of daily life: the faces of children, the smell of an orange, a memory from a happy vacation, a minor success at work, and so on. Whatever positive facts you find, bring a mindful awareness to them—open up to it—dig in! Savor the experience. It’s delicious! Make it last by staying with it for 5, 10, even 20 seconds. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove |
| 470:TRY: During the day, see if you can detect the bloom of the present moment in every moment, the ordinary ones, the in-between ones, even the hard ones. Work at allowing more things to unfold in your life without forcing them to happen and without rejecting the ones that don’t fit your idea of what should be happening. See if you can sense the spaces through which you might move with no effort in the spirit of Chuang Tzu’s cook. Notice how if you can make some time early in the day for being, with no agenda, it can change the quality of the rest of your day. By affirming first what is primary in your own being, see if you don’t get a mindful jump on the whole day and wind up more capable of sensing, appreciating, and responding to the bloom of each moment. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove |
| 471:Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. The things which are sacred or precious to us are the things we withdraw from promiscuous sharing. But now we are taught to throw everything within us into public light and common pawing. To seek joy in meeting halls. We haven't even got a word for the quality I mean& |
*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M *** |
| 1:quality, whose ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB |
| 2:Look for a high quality ~ S J Scott, #NFDB |
| 3:An honorable quality. ~ Michael Koryta, #NFDB |
| 4:Grace is a feminine quality. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 5:The quality of memory … ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 6:The quality of mercy ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 7:Gallantry is gentleman's quality. ~ Toba Beta, #NFDB |
| 8:Quanity has it's own quality. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB |
| 9:appreciate quality baked goods. ~ Natalie Lloyd, #NFDB |
| 10:I can have an androgynous quality. ~ Lara Stone, #NFDB |
| 11:My worst quality is impatience. ~ Emma Thompson, #NFDB |
| 12:Quality is the best business plan. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 13:Quality requires your Presence. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 14:Quantity has a quality all its own. ~ B V Larson, #NFDB |
| 15:The public always picks quality. ~ Randy Jackson, #NFDB |
| 16:More fashion = less need for quality ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 17:Quality is not an act, it is a habit. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 18:quality flows from the top down. ~ Steve Dublanica, #NFDB |
| 19:Quality is the best business plan. ~ John Lasseter, #NFDB |
| 20:Love is not a higher quality than truth. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 21:Quality brands never go bankrupt. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB |
22:Quality is conformance to requirements.
~ Crosby,#NFDB |
| 23:Quality is pride of workmanship. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 24:Quality starts in the boardroom. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 25:Quantity has a quality all its own. ~ Joseph Stalin, #NFDB |
26:To manage quality you must measure it.
~ George?,#NFDB |
| 27:Quality … has to do with intention. ~ Elliott Erwitt, #NFDB |
| 28:I think his deepest quality is empathy. ~ Paul Begala, #NFDB |
| 29:Kindness is a highly underrated quality. ~ Pam Ferris, #NFDB |
| 30:Obsess about the quality of the product. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB |
| 31:Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual. ~ Confucius, #NFDB |
| 32:easy isn’t the goal. Quality is the goal. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 33:Nice. Now that's an overrated quality ~ Beth Fantaskey, #NFDB |
| 34:Quality sells itself. No hype needed. ~ Brandi L Bates, #NFDB |
| 35:Quality, service, cleanliness, and value. ~ Steve Ross, #NFDB |
| 36:Quality tends to fan out like waves. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 37:Compliments pass when the quality meet. ~ Brendan Behan, #NFDB |
| 38:Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 39:Quality questions create a quality life. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 40:What is the quality of your intent? ~ Thurgood Marshall, #NFDB |
| 41:An intention is a quality of consciousness ~ Gary Zukav, #NFDB |
| 42:I like that Zarek. He quality people! ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, #NFDB |
| 43:Popularity is not a gurantee of quality. ~ Indira Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 44:Quality is everyone's responsibility. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 45:Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 46:rediscover the quality he possessed in ~ Patrick Modiano, #NFDB |
| 47:Endurance is the crowning quality. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 48:It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 49:We deserve quality lives with equality. ~ Sarah Silverman, #NFDB |
| 50:He’s America in action — opposed to quality. ~ James Purdy, #NFDB |
| 51:Intuition is a strong feminine quality. ~ Carolina Herrera, #NFDB |
| 52:The quality of mercy is not strained ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 53:I think ghostliness is a good quality. ~ Natalie Standiford, #NFDB |
| 54:Come give us a taste of your quality. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 55:In this world, there's even room for quality. ~ Lorin Maazel, #NFDB |
| 56:Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
| 57:There is a treadmill quality to workaholism. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB |
| 58:Time took on a peculiarly viscous quality. ~ Julie Anne Long, #NFDB |
| 59:What we hear is the quality of our listening. ~ Robert Fripp, #NFDB |
| 60:I think listeners are hungry to hear quality. ~ Patty Griffin, #NFDB |
| 61:some quality time with a good book. Trying to ~ Susan Mallery, #NFDB |
| 62:The most attractive quality of all is dignity. ~ Sherry Argov, #NFDB |
| 63:Your beliefs determine your quality of life ~ Andrew Matthews, #NFDB |
| 64:Quality storytelling inspires quality dialogue. ~ Robert McKee, #NFDB |
| 65:Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own. ~ Vladimir Lenin, #NFDB |
| 66:the defective moral quality of being a stranger.’ ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 67:The male quality is the creative gift. ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins, #NFDB |
| 68:The most universal quality is diversity. ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB |
| 69:Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB |
| 70:Courage is the most important spiritual quality. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 71:Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays. ~ Louis C K, #NFDB |
| 72:Quality control starts and ends with training. ~ Kaoru Ishikawa, #NFDB |
| 73:Quality, not quantity, is my measure. ~ Douglas William Jerrold, #NFDB |
| 74:Another leadership quality is courage. Children ~ Hannah Raybans, #NFDB |
| 75:Blood is a juice of rarest quality. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 76:Humility is considered an un-masculine quality. ~ David Duchovny, #NFDB |
| 77:The quality of life is determined by its activities. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 78:The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 79:Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality. ~ Claire Trevor, #NFDB |
| 80:In the race for quality, there is no finish line ~ David T Kearns, #NFDB |
| 81:I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. ~ Sophia Loren, #NFDB |
| 82:Love is the quality of attention we pay to things ~ J D McClatchy, #NFDB |
| 83:People do eventually see something that's quality. ~ Robin Tunney, #NFDB |
| 84:Quality doesn't improve by sitting on things. ~ Val Logsdon Fitch, #NFDB |
| 85:Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB |
| 86:Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness. ~ Robert Lucas Jr, #NFDB |
| 87:The first quality that is needed is audacity. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB |
| 88:There is a learning quality in all of our shows. ~ Trisha Goddard, #NFDB |
| 89:When you're out of quality, you're out of business. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 90:Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 91:Excellence comes when we balance quality with quantity. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB |
| 92:Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB |
| 93:...quality and distinction in every line of her. ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB |
| 94:Quality combines people power and process power. ~ Subir Chowdhury, #NFDB |
| 95:Quality is determined by accuracy and completeness. ~ Larry Sanger, #NFDB |
| 96:The motive will determine the quality of the act. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 97:The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness. ~ David Mamet, #NFDB |
| 98:Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 99:Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress, ~ Max Heindel, #NFDB |
| 100:In fact, she had the neuter-gender quality of an angel. ~ Anne Rice, #NFDB |
| 101:In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 102:I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie. ~ Rob Zombie, #NFDB |
| 103:Quality is first engineered; only then it is inspected ~ J R D Tata, #NFDB |
| 104:Quality is my principle and qualified is my attitude. ~ Laverne Cox, #NFDB |
| 105:Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master. ~ Sax Rohmer, #NFDB |
| 106:Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan, #NFDB |
| 107:ABOMINABLE, adj. The quality of another's opinions. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB |
| 108:Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving. ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB |
| 109:An award does not change the quality of a book. ~ Chris Van Allsburg, #NFDB |
| 110:If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 111:It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality. ~ Brian Eno, #NFDB |
| 112:The difference between Fashion and Style is Quality ~ Giorgio Armani, #NFDB |
| 113:Today's winemakers still worry about quality. ~ Francis Ford Coppola, #NFDB |
| 114:are in perceptions of the taste and quality of the ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 115:I daydream all the time, and I like that quality. ~ Shirley Henderson, #NFDB |
| 116:I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon. ~ Cindy Crawford, #NFDB |
| 117:It is quality rather than quantity that matters. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 118:Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it. ~ Noel Coward, #NFDB |
| 119:The difference between style and fashion is quality. ~ Giorgio Armani, #NFDB |
| 120:The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith ~ John Calvin, #NFDB |
| 121:The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB |
| 122:College guys are different. They’re looking for quality. ~ Lois Duncan, #NFDB |
| 123:Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret. ~ Paul Gillin, #NFDB |
| 124:Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity. ~ Claudius, #NFDB |
| 125:My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary. ~ Patrick Roy, #NFDB |
| 126:Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 127:Quality performance starts with a positive attitude. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB |
| 128:The quality of my life was the quality of my questions. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 129:A high quality life starts with a high quality you! ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB |
| 130:Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life ~ Norman Cousins, #NFDB |
| 131:Cluelessness is not an attractive quality in a man. ~ Michael Ian Black, #NFDB |
| 132:Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount. ~ Henry Ford, #NFDB |
| 133:Quality is more than a promise, it's genuine performance. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
| 134:The cost of quality is the expense of doing things wrong. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 135:The quality of life is more important than life itself. ~ Alexis Carrel, #NFDB |
| 136:The quality of our attention determines our experience. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 137:The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB |
| 138:This is what is called 'The mysterious Quality' (of the Tao). ~ Lao Tzu, #NFDB |
| 139:Variability is the world’s most fundamental quality. For ~ Vadim Zeland, #NFDB |
| 140:we expect a wine of quality to demand something from us. ~ Anne Fadiman, #NFDB |
| 141:What I value in life is quality rather then quantity. ~ Albert Einstein, #NFDB |
| 142:You do not install quality; you begin to work at it. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 143:Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB |
| 144:A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality ~ Friedrich Engels, #NFDB |
| 145:I remember the quality of the pain. You don't forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB |
| 146:It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. ~ Max Beerbohm, #NFDB |
| 147:She had a quality he had never known- she WAS quality. ~ Ariana Franklin, #NFDB |
| 148:That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality. ~ Russell Brand, #NFDB |
| 149:The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB |
| 150:The quality of life decreases with heightened security. ~ Rebecca Miller, #NFDB |
| 151:The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 152:Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality. ~ Christine Feehan, #NFDB |
| 153:We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients. ~ Ben Nicholson, #NFDB |
| 154:A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 155:Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 156:It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 157:Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB |
| 158:Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent. ~ Tahir Shah, #NFDB |
| 159:"Our quality of being determines our quality of doing." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 160:Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show. ~ Oscar Nunez, #NFDB |
| 161:the quality of my life was the quality of my questions. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 162:These chicken feet are first quality. You appreciate them? ~ Paul Theroux, #NFDB |
| 163:To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself. ~ Emmet Fox, #NFDB |
| 164:We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB |
| 165:Why does the last event condition the quality of the past? ~ Waguih Ghali, #NFDB |
| 166:Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 167:Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it. ~ Suzan Lori Parks, #NFDB |
| 168:Sarcasm is such an unattractive quality in anyone but me. ~ Samantha Young, #NFDB |
| 169:The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 170:The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. ~ Ann Patchett, #NFDB |
| 171:The quality of our breath expresses our inner feelings. ~ T K V Desikachar, #NFDB |
| 172:We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 173:Also, bad quality causes big disruptions in my river system. ~ Taiichi Ohno, #NFDB |
| 174:A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality. ~ Jill Briscoe, #NFDB |
| 175:a potent adjective floating in a nounless void, a pure quality. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 176:Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB |
| 177:Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 178:I’ve come around to the conciliatory quality of untruths. ~ Durga Chew Bose, #NFDB |
| 179:Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 180:Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB |
| 181:See, I knew I could count on you for quality mayhem, my man. ~ Rachel Caine, #NFDB |
| 182:The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB |
| 183:The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. ~ Robinson Jeffers, #NFDB |
| 184:To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality. ~ Mark Frauenfelder, #NFDB |
| 185:Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication. ~ L Ron Hubbard, #NFDB |
| 186:but I remember the quality of the pain. You don’t forget it. ~ Paula Hawkins, #NFDB |
| 187:Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 188:Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 189:Love is a quality of attention, a way of focusing on someone. ~ Stuart Wilde, #NFDB |
| 190:No quality or characteristic is more important than trust ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB |
| 191:Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around. ~ Richard Leider, #NFDB |
| 192:Put out quality content every day and engage around it. It ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB |
193:The quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB |
| 194:The quality of your life is the quality of your questions. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 195:The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy. ~ Kenneth H Cooper, #NFDB |
| 196:Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 197:Whatever you put in your mouth, make sure it's high quality. ~ Marilu Henner, #NFDB |
| 198:Boyd’s Law: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration. ~ Yevgeniy Brikman, #NFDB |
| 199:But Buck possessed a quality that made for greatness—imagination. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 200:Creativity is a quality that we give to every activity that we do. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 201:Gloria once told me that your best quality is also your worst. ~ Tayari Jones, #NFDB |
| 202:No quality or characteristic is more important than trust. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB |
| 203:Quality matters when quantity is an inadequate substitute. ~ Richard P Rumelt, #NFDB |
| 204:The great quality of Bhakti is that it cleanses the mind. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 205:The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour. ~ Clare Balding, #NFDB |
| 206:The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 207:The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology. ~ Bernard Malamud, #NFDB |
| 208:Wonder, as a quality of intellect, has fallen from favor. ~ Lyanda Lynn Haupt, #NFDB |
| 209:Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals. ~ Jared Polis, #NFDB |
| 210:Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB |
| 211:High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus) ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB |
| 212:I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB |
| 213:I have no qualm about the quality of the contemporary repertory. ~ John Bonham, #NFDB |
| 214:Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality. ~ Bill Condon, #NFDB |
| 215:quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 216:Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. ~ James F Cooper, #NFDB |
| 217:The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 218:The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 219:The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 220:You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. ~ Don King, #NFDB |
| 221:Don’t confuse intensity of emotion with quality of emotion ~ Karen Marie Moning, #NFDB |
| 222:Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 223:Love is your quality. Love is not what you do. Love is what you are. ~ Sadhguru, #NFDB |
| 224:Our quality of being determines our quality of doing. (Thay). ~ Thich Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 225:Patience is supported & nurtured by a quality of forgiveness. ~ Allan Lokos, #NFDB |
| 226:The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 227:The quality of the team determines the speed of the dream. ~ Mark Victor Hansen, #NFDB |
| 228:The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. ~ A R Bernard, #NFDB |
| 229:What we believe about God determines the quality of our marriage. ~ Dave Harvey, #NFDB |
| 230:You cannot teach a man how to forget fear. It is a rare quality ~ Simon Scarrow, #NFDB |
| 231:You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film. ~ Herbert Lom, #NFDB |
| 232:Fear of draughts is a very bad quality for a flower”, ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry, #NFDB |
| 233:He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it. ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB |
| 234:I always feel that it is quality of time not quantity of time. ~ Alberto Del Rio, #NFDB |
| 235:In singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up in volume. ~ Hedda Hopper, #NFDB |
| 236:I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. ~ Daniel Radcliffe, #NFDB |
| 237:It’s a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality. This ~ Liu Cixin, #NFDB |
| 238:My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience. ~ Karen Kingston, #NFDB |
| 239:Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 240:Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy. ~ Myron Tribus, #NFDB |
| 241:Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 242:The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB |
| 243:The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 244:The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 245:the quality of your thoughts determine the quality of your life. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB |
| 246:The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 247:The world has changed from quality to quantity, and so have we. ~ Santosh Kalwar, #NFDB |
| 248:You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds. ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB |
| 249:A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality. ~ Lasse Hallstrom, #NFDB |
| 250:I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver. ~ Tim Allen, #NFDB |
| 251:Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work. ~ Nicholas Sparks, #NFDB |
| 252:People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. ~ Moliere, #NFDB |
| 253:Perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control. ~ Steven Barnes, #NFDB |
| 254:Quantity gives experience. From experience alone can quality come. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB |
| 255:Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation. ~ Julianne Moore, #NFDB |
| 256:So much for Obama's promise of 'quality, affordable health care.' ~ Deroy Murdock, #NFDB |
| 257:Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB |
| 258:Success happens with a consistent increase in quality in your life ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 259:Switching off perfection switched on the human quality ~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson, #NFDB |
| 260:Television has certainly become a wasteland of quality programming. ~ Robin Leach, #NFDB |
| 261:The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 262:Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 263:When you love, you should always watch the quality of your love. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 264:Accuracy is more a male quality than a female one. - Jane Marple ~ Agatha Christie, #NFDB |
| 265:A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 266:Always remember it’s quality not quantity of people on Facebook. ~ Christie Barlow, #NFDB |
| 267:Boundaries are a “litmus test” for the quality of our relationships. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB |
| 268:Control of consciousness determines the quality of life. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 269:Don’t worry about quality. Act, don’t reflect. Momentum is everything. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 270:Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. ~ Andy Goldsworthy, #NFDB |
| 271:Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 272:Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB |
| 273:Good games are productive. They’re producing a higher quality of life. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 274:If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB |
| 275:Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack. ~ Tom DeMarco, #NFDB |
| 276:The amount of water on the planet does not change, only its quality. ~ Walter Munk, #NFDB |
| 277:The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. ~ George Bernard Shaw, #NFDB |
| 278:The length of your life doesn't guarantee a better quality of life. ~ Dannika Dark, #NFDB |
| 279:The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB |
| 280:The quality of a miracle is mysterious, but its manner is simple. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 281:The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 282:the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 283:We know the quality of another’s heart through her voice. ~ Terry Tempest Williams, #NFDB |
| 284:A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. ~ Charles Lindbergh, #NFDB |
| 285:And finally, that great quality of his—to look beyond failures. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB |
| 286:And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 287:Being in a hurry is inversely proportional to quality of ~ Hector Garcia Puigcerver, #NFDB |
| 288:Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. ~ Carl von Clausewitz, #NFDB |
| 289:Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality. ~ Thomas Hoving, #NFDB |
| 290:I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. ~ Nas, #NFDB |
| 291:If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB |
| 292:Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. ~ Margaret Mead, #NFDB |
| 293:Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 294:It’s quality versus quantity, but quantity has a quality all its own, ~ Evan Currie, #NFDB |
| 295:I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV. ~ Andrew Lau, #NFDB |
| 296:Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death. ~ Robin Williams, #NFDB |
| 297:The consumer is both culprit and victim of the confusion on quality. ~ Nino Cerruti, #NFDB |
| 298:The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness. ~ Fred Barnes, #NFDB |
| 299:The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention. ~ Cheri Huber, #NFDB |
| 300:Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list. ~ Bill Hybels, #NFDB |
| 301:Writing for me is never about quantity. It's always about quality. ~ Raymond Bolton, #NFDB |
| 302:You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality. ~ Vic Morrow, #NFDB |
| 303:Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 304:Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. ~ Pierre Bonnard, #NFDB |
| 305:Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. ~ Bill Frist, #NFDB |
| 306:If holiness can be compared to any other quality, it is only to strength. ~ Meng-Tse, #NFDB |
| 307:I just love the ideal of the surreal quality of putting it on a shoe. ~ Jeremy Scott, #NFDB |
| 308:I think compassion is an important quality in people in general. ~ Shannon Elizabeth, #NFDB |
| 309:I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it. ~ Gary Larson, #NFDB |
| 310:No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ~ Cyril Connolly, #NFDB |
| 311:Quality literature, such as the Great Books, the Harvard Classics, ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB |
| 312:The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. ~ Alexey Brodovitch, #NFDB |
| 313:The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb. ~ Melanne Verveer, #NFDB |
| 314:The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens. ~ George Scialabba, #NFDB |
| 315:The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, #NFDB |
| 316:The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention. ~ Cheri Huber, #NFDB |
| 317:The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 318:The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 319:To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 320:Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB |
| 321:You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 322:You can only do great work if you have adequate quality time to do it. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB |
| 323:You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. ~ William S Burroughs, #NFDB |
| 324:Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. ~ Ada Leverson, #NFDB |
| 325:If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf. ~ T F Hodge, #NFDB |
| 326:Quality is a nice thing to have, but brands are not built by quality alone. ~ Al Ries, #NFDB |
| 327:Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 328:the people I surrounded myself with determined the quality of my life. ~ Kate Stewart, #NFDB |
| 329:The quality of our thinking will determine the quality of our future ~ Edward de Bono, #NFDB |
| 330:The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 331:There is, come to think of it, a kind of Judi Dench quality to McCain. ~ Daniel Craig, #NFDB |
| 332:the surest way to feel rich was to invest in quality nonessentials. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB |
| 333:To improve life one must improve the quality of experience. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 334:Your true assets are the collections of your quality moments on the earth. ~ Amit Ray, #NFDB |
| 335:Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport. ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB |
| 336:Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting. ~ Mitch Gaylord, #NFDB |
| 337:Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue ~ Livy, #NFDB |
| 338:If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB |
| 339:If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. ~ Emile Zola, #NFDB |
| 340:If you don't care about quality, you can meet any other requirement. ~ Gerald Weinberg, #NFDB |
| 341:If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. —William James ~ Robert J Morgan, #NFDB |
| 342:I have a quality where I sort of scare people. But I am who I am. ~ Nicolas Ghesquiere, #NFDB |
| 343:Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is. ~ Alexis Carrel, #NFDB |
| 344:Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 345:That’s quality programming. It’s on the Arts and Entertainment Network. ~ Robert Bevan, #NFDB |
| 346:The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts. ~ Robin Sharma, #NFDB |
| 347:When it comes to age, it’s all about the quality of the preservation, ~ Donna McDonald, #NFDB |
| 348:You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality. ~ Cary Fukunaga, #NFDB |
| 349:All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. ~ Christopher Dodd, #NFDB |
| 350:I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality. ~ Erich von Stroheim, #NFDB |
| 351:I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have. ~ Melissa de la Cruz, #NFDB |
| 352:It is part of her beauty, this quality of being not quite there, dreamlike. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB |
| 353:It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk. ~ Rachel Zoe, #NFDB |
| 354:Nourishment means a quality of life; consistency in the way we treat ourselves. ~ Kelis, #NFDB |
| 355:Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. ~ Tom Vilsack, #NFDB |
| 356:Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it. ~ Tom DeMarco, #NFDB |
| 357:The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 358:The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 359:The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 360:an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world. ~ Lisa Unger, #NFDB |
| 361:A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ~ Franz Liszt, #NFDB |
| 362:Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?” Cecily ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB |
| 363:It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life. ~ Tom Ford, #NFDB |
| 364:It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work. ~ Irrfan Khan, #NFDB |
| 365:Look deeply. Don't miss the inherent quality and value of everything. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 366:Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 367:One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality. ~ Elizabeth Berkley, #NFDB |
| 368:quality differentials have a tendency to erode as an industry matures ~ Michael E Porter, #NFDB |
| 369:Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. ~ Ray Bradbury, #NFDB |
| 370:See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought. ~ Charlie Munger, #NFDB |
| 371:Sometimes defeats are the best outcomes. To react to adversity is a quality. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 372:There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. ~ John Updike, #NFDB |
| 373:You can't have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust. ~ Cornel West, #NFDB |
| 374:A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 375:GDP omits many dimensions of the quality of life that matter to people. ~ Robert J Gordon, #NFDB |
| 376:In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. ~ Raymond Chandler, #NFDB |
| 377:In the past, ignorance protected inefficient or lower-quality sellers ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB |
| 378:Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality ~ Dieter Rams, #NFDB |
| 379:Perceptiveness was not a quality I encouraged in those I spent time with. ~ Julie Johnson, #NFDB |
| 380:The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. ~ Padmasree Warrior, #NFDB |
| 381:The most important quality on the spiritual path is courage,” said Gandhi. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 382:The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ~ Ray Kroc, #NFDB |
| 383:The quality of an education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 384:The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined. ~ Bill Moyers, #NFDB |
| 385:The quality of your life is a function of who you go through life with. ~ Peter Diamandis, #NFDB |
| 386:To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of the arts. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB |
| 387:Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 388:Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 389:Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more. ~ Ron Kaufman, #NFDB |
| 390:Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances. ~ Dean Acheson, #NFDB |
| 391:It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 392:It is the quality of the burden you must consider, Brutus, not the weight. ~ Conn Iggulden, #NFDB |
| 393:Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 394:The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life. ~ Yehuda Levi, #NFDB |
| 395:The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB |
| 396:The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing. ~ Quentin S Crisp, #NFDB |
| 397:There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have. ~ Will Smith, #NFDB |
398:What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to return books. ~ David Bowie,#NFDB |
| 399:When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 400:Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB |
| 401:And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. ~ Robert Fulghum, #NFDB |
| 402:Belief that one was hard to fool was the one quality shared by all suckers. ~ Daryl Gregory, #NFDB |
| 403:Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. ~ Frank Herbert, #NFDB |
| 404:He was a hand-holder; she'd gathered that much. Lovely quality in a man... ~ Grace Burrowes, #NFDB |
| 405:I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family. ~ Reba McEntire, #NFDB |
| 406:It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 407:Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not. ~ Jay Watson, #NFDB |
| 408:Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain. ~ Michelangelo Antonioni, #NFDB |
| 409:Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it. ~ W P Kinsella, #NFDB |
| 410:The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. ~ Chantal Kreviazuk, #NFDB |
| 411:The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. ~ Samuel Alito, #NFDB |
| 412:The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. ~ Harold MacMillan, #NFDB |
| 413:The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ~ Martin Luther King Jr, #NFDB |
| 414:The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him. ~ Pablo Picasso, #NFDB |
| 415:The strategy of providing quality while refusing equality was vulnerable. ~ Rajmohan Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 416:Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected? ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB |
| 417:You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it. ~ Ezekiel Emanuel, #NFDB |
| 418:Your chances of creating deeply hinge on the quality of your awareness state. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB |
| 419:Adaptability is a most desirable habit or quality for success in life. ~ Sivananda Saraswati, #NFDB |
| 420:Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships. ~ Franz Stampfl, #NFDB |
| 421:Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality. ~ Tom Robbins, #NFDB |
| 422:I don't look down to an audience. I look up to them. They respond to quality. ~ Tony Bennett, #NFDB |
| 423:I have learned that the quality of life is not determined by its longevity. ~ Robin LaFevers, #NFDB |
| 424:Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 425:Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. ~ Aldo Leopold, #NFDB |
| 426:... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination. ~ Virginia Woolf, #NFDB |
| 427:Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character. ~ Orrin Woodward, #NFDB |
| 428:speed and quality are allies in the pursuit of the customer’s long-term benefit. ~ Eric Ries, #NFDB |
| 429:the best way to make a lasting change is to develop one quality habit at a time. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB |
| 430:The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ~ Willa Cather, #NFDB |
| 431:The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. ~ Steven Van Zandt, #NFDB |
| 432:The results of action depends upon the very quality of the action. ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati, #NFDB |
| 433:You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it. ~ Ryuho Okawa, #NFDB |
| 434:Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life ~ Marie de France, #NFDB |
| 435:Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB |
| 436:Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB |
| 437:I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. ~ Jean Webster, #NFDB |
| 438:It’s not more time you need. It’s more quality use of the time you already have. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB |
| 439:The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability. ~ Jack Ma, #NFDB |
| 440:the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 441:There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal. ~ Henri Nouwen, #NFDB |
| 442:The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life. ~ Lev Grossman, #NFDB |
443:To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
~ Henry David Thoreau, [T5],#NFDB |
| 444:Vulnerability is an endearing quality; we are naturally drawn to humble people. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB |
| 445:We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 446:What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed. ~ Hanif Kureishi, #NFDB |
| 447:Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality. ~ Jesse Eisenberg, #NFDB |
| 448:I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB |
| 449:I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ. ~ Lee Strobel, #NFDB |
| 450:Loyalty is such a rare quality; but my fans are the most loyal in the world. ~ Michael Jackson, #NFDB |
| 451:One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 452:The difference between players is not always the quality but their mentality. ~ Rafael Benitez, #NFDB |
| 453:The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ~ Ray Kroc, #NFDB |
| 454:There is only one quality that makes humans truly human and that is their will. ~ Kohta Hirano, #NFDB |
| 455:There's never a better way of living than just improving our quality of life. ~ Adrian Grenier, #NFDB |
| 456:Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 457:Tony said to me that the quality of my life was the quality of my questions. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 458:When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 459:Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB |
| 460:A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length. ~ Gabrielle Zevin, #NFDB |
| 461:Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity. ~ Jean Claude Carriere, #NFDB |
| 462:Eternal life is not primarily duration but quality of life, "life to the limit. ~ John Eldredge, #NFDB |
| 463:In business one should always follow the rule of ‘Good quality & Integrity. ~ Rashmi Bansal, #NFDB |
| 464:It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 465:Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. ~ Hermann Weyl, #NFDB |
| 466:the addition of time pressure to a decision-making event reduces decision quality. ~ Oren Klaff, #NFDB |
| 467:The quality of a decision cannot be solely judged based on its outcome. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB |
| 468:The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,. ~ Christopher Nolan, #NFDB |
| 469:There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality. ~ Celeste Ng, #NFDB |
| 470:The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself. ~ Carson McCullers, #NFDB |
| 471:Your best quality is your heart. It's your heart I fell in love with." -Julia ~ Sylvain Reynard, #NFDB |
| 472:Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer, #NFDB |
| 473:Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the Language of the World. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 474:Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 475:Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ~ Pierre Corneille, #NFDB |
| 476:Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 477:I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality. ~ Fred Brooks, #NFDB |
| 478:I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy. ~ Jacquelyn Mitchard, #NFDB |
| 479:My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality. ~ Chris Van Allsburg, #NFDB |
| 480:People shopping for a messiah want quality. Nobody is going to follow a loser. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB |
| 481:(Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.) ~ Elizabeth Peters, #NFDB |
| 482:The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB |
| 483:The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB |
| 484:Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB |
| 485:When everything gets turned upside down, it only leads to better quality stuff. ~ John Krasinski, #NFDB |
| 486:An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 487:A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB |
| 488:Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost. ~ Genichi Taguchi, #NFDB |
| 489:I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. ~ John Mayer, #NFDB |
| 490:it was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was the mixture. ~ Evelyn Waugh, #NFDB |
| 491:Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience. ~ Sonia Johnson, #NFDB |
| 492:Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB |
| 493:Money can’t buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery. ~ Kerry Greenwood, #NFDB |
| 494:Paradox...Rich in natural resources but poor in the quality of our human resource ~ Fela Durotoye, #NFDB |
| 495:Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB |
| 496:Quality thoughts will turn their back on you if you don't treat them with respect. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB |
| 497:Sadness is not necessarily something bad. Don't judge it as a bad or negative quality. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 498:The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence. ~ Tom Landry, #NFDB |
| 499:The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. ~ Yukio Mishima, #NFDB |
| 500:Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB |
| 501:What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB |
| 502:With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. ~ Carlos Slim, #NFDB |
| 503:A quality of justice A quantity of light A particle of mercy Makes the color of right ~ Neil Peart, #NFDB |
| 504:Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~ Henri Fr d ric Amiel, #NFDB |
| 505:Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel, #NFDB |
| 506:Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB |
| 507:Everything I do, it's all about making every moment a quality, meaningful moment. ~ Adrian Grenier, #NFDB |
| 508:Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. ~ John Taylor Gatto, #NFDB |
| 509:Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender. ~ Trevor Noah, #NFDB |
| 510:I like simple, I like quality, and I like less. Do I like a certain aesthetic? Yeah. ~ Tomas Maier, #NFDB |
| 511:It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world. ~ Romany Malco, #NFDB |
| 512:People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality. ~ Melissa Joan Hart, #NFDB |
| 513:The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations. ~ Wade Davis, #NFDB |
| 514:The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession. ~ Rebekah Brooks, #NFDB |
| 515:There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 516:The root of all dissention between friends is the quality of idealism contained in it. ~ Ana s Nin, #NFDB |
| 517:The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This book has a magical, activating quality ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 518:Women,” Erlendur said as he stood up. “They’re difficult to quality control. ~ Arnaldur Indri ason, #NFDB |
| 519:All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home. ~ Harold Bloom, #NFDB |
| 520:A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB |
| 521:Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. ~ George S Patton, #NFDB |
| 522:During the normal course of events, your mind will determine the quality of your life. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB |
| 523:Investment must always consider the price as well as the quality of the security. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB |
| 524:Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. ~ Bertrand Russell, #NFDB |
| 525:Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB |
| 526:The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed. ~ Joseph Campbell, #NFDB |
| 527:We must guarantee the quality of the existence of the men and women of tomorrow. ~ Marc Forne Molne, #NFDB |
| 528:We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 529:You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them. ~ John Kao, #NFDB |
| 530:You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship. ~ Justin Welby, #NFDB |
| 531:film industry with its nepotism, tackiness, hypocrisy and blatant disregard for quality. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 532:He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 533:I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria. ~ John Legend, #NFDB |
| 534:Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways. ~ Michael Kors, #NFDB |
| 535:Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB |
| 536:Quality and quantity differ, the self is equal. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Pure Existent, #NFDB |
| 537:Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 538:She appears sunny, a quality that Mirabelle can call upon only for special occasions. ~ Steve Martin, #NFDB |
| 539:Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB |
| 540:The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education ~ John Legend, #NFDB |
| 541:The content of your awareness is less important than the quality of the awareness ~ Anthony de Mello, #NFDB |
| 542:The quality of Moscow's hired killers had slipped since the KGB's glory days. ~ Alexander Litvinenko, #NFDB |
| 543:To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, #NFDB |
| 544:When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB |
| 545:Whenever you respect and admire a spiritual quality, it starts to grow in yourself. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
546:Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
~ Pierre Corneille,#NFDB |
| 547:Even the air tasted imported from a country ranked high on the quality-of-life index. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB |
| 548:I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! ~ Danai Gurira, #NFDB |
| 549:I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that. ~ John Lasseter, #NFDB |
| 550:Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. ~ Desmond Tutu, #NFDB |
| 551:I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality. ~ Jonathan Brandis, #NFDB |
| 552:Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object. ~ Keanu Reeves, #NFDB |
| 553:Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force. ~ Ali Babacan, #NFDB |
| 554:Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 555:Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB |
| 556:Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say? ~ Martin Amis, #NFDB |
| 557:Soul' is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves. ~ Thomas Moore, #NFDB |
| 558:The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty. ~ Salmon P Chase, #NFDB |
| 559:The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers. ~ Andreas Schleicher, #NFDB |
| 560:The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 561:The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life. ~ Jun ichir Tanizaki, #NFDB |
| 562:The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. ~ Tom Waits, #NFDB |
| 563:True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth. ~ Christopher Pike, #NFDB |
| 564:An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education. ~ Jalen Rose, #NFDB |
| 565:Bliss is the nature of spirit-force in the same way that wetness is a quality of water. ~ Steve Taylor, #NFDB |
| 566:I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty. ~ Charles Richet, #NFDB |
| 567:It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality. ~ Nigel Slater, #NFDB |
568:law of productivity:
High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus) ~ Cal Newport,#NFDB |
| 569:Learning about new hot sauces is the least expensive way to improve my quality of life. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB |
| 570:Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB |
| 571:she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB |
| 572:Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity. ~ Gordon B Hinckley, #NFDB |
| 573:The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. ~ Hugh Shelton, #NFDB |
| 574:The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, #NFDB |
| 575:The main quality of leadership..........is courage ! If you can dream it, you can do it! ~ Walt Disney, #NFDB |
| 576:The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education. ~ Ron Kind, #NFDB |
| 577:The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed. ~ Ivan Illich, #NFDB |
| 578:The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the expectations of your peer group. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 579:The value of our lives depends on the quality of our thinking, our speech, and our action. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 580:The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 581:What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves. ~ Cheri Huber, #NFDB |
| 582:When you wake up, choose to be happy. That is the fourth undeniable quality of a winner. ~ Joel Osteen, #NFDB |
| 583:While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough. ~ Jesse Jackson, #NFDB |
| 584:You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 585:Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB |
| 586:Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts. ~ James Russell Lowell, #NFDB |
| 587:Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB |
| 588:Like there’s any difference between the quality of “news” since the Media’s gone out. ~ Gary Shteyngart, #NFDB |
| 589:My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives. ~ Marie Forleo, #NFDB |
| 590:Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ~ Robert M Pirsig, #NFDB |
| 591:The men of this party had both the quality and the defect of frankness in their opinions. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 592:The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling. ~ Fred Hollows, #NFDB |
| 593:The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause. ~ Peter Kreeft, #NFDB |
| 594:We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness. ~ Howard Zahniser, #NFDB |
| 595:You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB |
596:He just likes to have fun, Papa."
"That's not a quality that gets you far in life. ~ Adriana Trigiani,#NFDB |
| 597:His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 598:Inside him a quality and a chemical—intelligence and testosterone—wrestled for hegemony. ~ Michael Lewis, #NFDB |
| 599:Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. ~ Manly Hall, #NFDB |
| 600:no matter the hardship, it’s your attitude that will determine the quality of your life. ~ Penelope Ward, #NFDB |
| 601:Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 602:QA and Development should be working together to ensure the quality of the system. The ~ Robert C Martin, #NFDB |
| 603:Quality of character doesn't make a leader, but the lack of it flaws the entire process. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB |
| 604:Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson, #NFDB |
| 605:That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong. ~ Lindsay Armstrong, #NFDB |
| 606:The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does. ~ Natalie Goldberg, #NFDB |
| 607:The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals. ~ Clay Shirky, #NFDB |
| 608:The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush. ~ Florence Littauer, #NFDB |
| 609:The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 610:What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside? ~ Madeleine Thien, #NFDB |
| 611:You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails. ~ David Gerrold, #NFDB |
| 612:After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 613:Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 614:A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships. ~ John Gray, #NFDB |
| 615:Civility is an affectation if it is not informed by some deeper quality of character. ~ Jamie Arpin Ricci, #NFDB |
| 616:Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed. ~ Kathryn Kuhlman, #NFDB |
| 617:Golf is not about the quality of your good shots, it is about the quality of your bad shots. ~ Nick Faldo, #NFDB |
| 618:If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural. ~ Luc de Clapiers, #NFDB |
| 619:I give my best and ask for it from others. I receive quality results for quality investments. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 620:I judge people based solely on the quality of bands on the black concert t-shirts they wear. ~ Lou Brutus, #NFDB |
| 621:In human beings, love is a quality, a high-prized virtue; in God, love is His identity. ~ Brennan Manning, #NFDB |
| 622:I suppose I am fairly alert and interested in people, and that is my most attractive quality. ~ H G Wells, #NFDB |
| 623:It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB |
| 624:One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB |
| 625:people get the mind and quality of brain that they deserve through their actions in life. ~ Robert Greene, #NFDB |
| 626:The ideal adventurer needs... the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs... ~ P G Wodehouse, #NFDB |
| 627:The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves. ~ Robert K Greenleaf, #NFDB |
| 628:The quality of our lives depends, to a large degree, on the results of our decisions ~ Barbara Ann Kipfer, #NFDB |
| 629:The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 630:What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now. ~ Ken Robinson, #NFDB |
| 631:A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 632:AMURCOSITY (AMURCO'SITY) n.s.[amurca, Lat.]The quality of lees or mother of any thing. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 633:Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength. ~ Dalai Lama, #NFDB |
| 634:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 635:Even his dearest friends would have admitted that he possessed not a single good quality. ~ Susanna Clarke, #NFDB |
| 636:Expressions of gratitude were the “most consistent significant predictor of marital quality. ~ Jancee Dunn, #NFDB |
| 637:greatness of reason is measured not by height or length, but by the quality of its judgements. ~ Epictetus, #NFDB |
| 638:If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. ~ LeVar Burton, #NFDB |
| 639:Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking. ~ Manly P Hall, #NFDB |
| 640:Master says the cholera is not a quality disease. The highborn don’t come down with such. ~ Jonathan Odell, #NFDB |
| 641:Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. ~ Gian Carlo Menotti, #NFDB |
| 642:Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. ~ Phil Crosby, #NFDB |
| 643:Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. ~ Melody Beattie, #NFDB |
| 644:Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion. ~ Quintilian, #NFDB |
| 645:the most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay. ~ Marie de Gournay, #NFDB |
| 646:The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 647:The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. ~ A W Tozer, #NFDB |
| 648:The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it. ~ Joseph Murphy, #NFDB |
| 649:What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all? ~ Sue Townsend, #NFDB |
| 650:Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render. ~ Earl Nightingale, #NFDB |
| 651:A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB |
| 652:A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life. ~ George Will, #NFDB |
| 653:a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work. ~ Margaret Deland, #NFDB |
654:A quality of justice
A quantity of light
A particle of mercy
Makes the color of right ~ Neil Peart,#NFDB |
| 655:Courage in the face of the unknown is an important quality in a wizard . . . very important. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB |
| 656:Dara doesn’t respond well to commands,” Vine said. “It’s a rather endearing quality, I find. ~ Jordan Rivet, #NFDB |
| 657:Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life! ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB |
| 658:Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. ~ Karl Lagerfeld, #NFDB |
| 659:I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ~ Tom Verlaine, #NFDB |
| 660:Let's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB |
| 661:Love is the most attractive quality in the world. And it lies at the heart of Christianity. ~ Michael Green, #NFDB |
| 662:Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, #NFDB |
| 663:The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness. ~ Nhat Hanh, #NFDB |
| 664:The quality of our motivational skill is directly related to the quality of our questions. ~ Steve Chandler, #NFDB |
| 665:The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language. ~ J Michael Straczynski, #NFDB |
| 666:The quality of the content is not determined by the section it sits in in the bookstore. ~ Christine Riccio, #NFDB |
| 667:There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art. ~ Lawrence Watt Evans, #NFDB |
| 668:We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. ~ Ben Jonson, #NFDB |
| 669:What is “visual quality” if it is not contextualized within a purpose, a situation and a public ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 670:You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much. ~ Chuck Hagel, #NFDB |
| 671:Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree. ~ George Crabbe, #NFDB |
| 672:Adding the second option creates a conflict, forcing a trade-off between price and quality. ~ Barry Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 673:As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases. ~ T K V Desikachar, #NFDB |
| 674:Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ~ Denis Diderot, #NFDB |
| 675:Gratitude is the quality of being thankful and the readiness to show appreciation in return. ~ Renee Carlino, #NFDB |
| 676:Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB |
| 677:Humanity is the quality which stops one being arrogant towards one's fellows, or being acrimonious. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 678:I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. ~ Catherine Keener, #NFDB |
| 679:I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB |
| 680:I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel. ~ Big K R I T, #NFDB |
| 681:I think Donald Trump showed a real quality that every leader needs, and that's resiliency. ~ Robert Jeffress, #NFDB |
| 682:I try to deliver because I don't believe that people are deliverin' the same quality of albums. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB |
| 683:Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. ~ Juvenal, #NFDB |
| 684:The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel. ~ Barbara Marciniak, #NFDB |
| 685:The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 686:Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot. ~ Bram Cohen, #NFDB |
| 687:we’re apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB |
| 688:When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality. ~ Phoebe Cates, #NFDB |
| 689:Yet the nearly metamorphic quality of his successes would fully exceed the dominion of money. ~ Gary Giddins, #NFDB |
| 690:You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime. ~ Kurt Tucholsky, #NFDB |
| 691:Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth. ~ Fran Lebowitz, #NFDB |
| 692:Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB |
| 693:Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life! ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB |
| 694:Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh. ~ Helena Bonham Carter, #NFDB |
| 695:Friendship is created out of the quality of time spent between two people, not the quantity. ~ Keith Ferrazzi, #NFDB |
| 696:Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion. ~ Brooke Shields, #NFDB |
| 697:How can anybody be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense? ~ Leonora Carrington, #NFDB |
| 698:If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 699:I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 700:I'm a fan of people that have quality, that do what they do and that are not into the showbiz. ~ Ralph Lauren, #NFDB |
| 701:I think it's a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity - you have to have both. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB |
| 702:Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 703:Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 704:Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
705:Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
~ Brian Tracy,#NFDB |
| 706:Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 707:Probably my worst quality is that I get very passionate about what I think is right. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB |
| 708:Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. ~ Jessica Livingston, #NFDB |
| 709:Sometimes something has a value, it has an instant quality to it, and that's all it needs to be. ~ Erol Alkan, #NFDB |
| 710:Spaghetti Westerns are really brutal and operatic with a surreal quality to the violence. ~ Quentin Tarantino, #NFDB |
| 711:The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. ~ Edward Gibbon, #NFDB |
| 712:Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB |
| 713:The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB |
| 714:The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ~ Aldous Huxley, #NFDB |
| 715:There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you. ~ Jack Canfield, #NFDB |
| 716:We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government. ~ Ferdinand Mount, #NFDB |
| 717:Worship: Where God isn't moved by the quality of our voice but by the condition of our hearts. ~ Chris Tomlin, #NFDB |
| 718:Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience ~ J R D Tata, #NFDB |
| 719:How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB |
| 720:Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. ~ Yousef Munayyer, #NFDB |
| 721:I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality. ~ Andrew Wyeth, #NFDB |
| 722:I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that. ~ Dave Chappelle, #NFDB |
| 723:I'm absolutely delighted if people think of me as a reliable purveyor of quality period stuff. ~ Andrew Davies, #NFDB |
| 724:It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. ~ Philip Green, #NFDB |
| 725:I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship. ~ Tucker Max, #NFDB |
| 726:Just to deliver one high-quality 45 minute lesson requires many hours of planning in advance. ~ Dana Goldstein, #NFDB |
| 727:Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB |
| 728:Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. ~ Joel Greenblatt, #NFDB |
| 729:The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB |
| 730:The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. ~ Jim Fowler, #NFDB |
| 731:The makeshift bag became a proper item, named 'Trash-Quality Makeshift Bag'. I liked it a lot. ~ Edward Castle, #NFDB |
| 732:The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 733:Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 734:Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ~ Ed Pastor, #NFDB |
| 735:An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 736:A quality man examines his heart, exposing the fears that generate the lies that lead to sin. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 737:Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB |
| 738:But like I always say when talking about making a movie, easy isn't the goal. Quality is the goal. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 739:Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates. ~ Yehudi Menuhin, #NFDB |
| 740:Fashion is a function of lifestyle, and style a function of quality, integrity and timelessness. ~ Ralph Lauren, #NFDB |
| 741:For the quality of owning freezes you forever into “I,” and cuts you off forever from the “we. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 742:For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB |
| 743:France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children. ~ Bruno Le Maire, #NFDB |
| 744:He has the valuable quality of being fond of people without wanting to turn them inside out. ~ Dorothy L Sayers, #NFDB |
| 745:I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs. ~ Kenny Lofton, #NFDB |
| 746:It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 747:People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 748:Scientists have suddenly become aware of the magic quality of the Earth and the entire universe. ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB |
| 749:Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives. ~ Henri J M Nouwen, #NFDB |
| 750:That girl of yours, I like her. She doesn't take no shit. That's a good quality to have in a woman. ~ J Daniels, #NFDB |
| 751:The imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit… is very valuable in God's eyes. 1 Peter 3:4 ~ Beth Moore, #NFDB |
| 752:The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. ~ Emma Goldman, #NFDB |
| 753:The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 754:The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB |
| 755:We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality. ~ Deng Xiaoping, #NFDB |
| 756:What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time. ~ Joan D Vinge, #NFDB |
| 757:When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors. ~ Puff Daddy, #NFDB |
| 758:You might be a redneck if you consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB |
| 759:You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision. ~ Vince McMahon, #NFDB |
| 760:You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads. ~ Maria V Snyder, #NFDB |
| 761:A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. ~ Kristin Cashore, #NFDB |
| 762:As Tony Robbins would say, “The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life. ~ Timothy Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 763:Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game. ~ Tony Alessandra, #NFDB |
| 764:Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance. ~ Tara Brach, #NFDB |
| 765:I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
766:Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
p 44 ~ Michael Perry,#NFDB |
| 767:It's up to us to take pop culture back and to express quality and dignity for both boys and girls. ~ Ashley Judd, #NFDB |
| 768:. Loyalty is the elixir that makes death easy, but it’s also the quality that gives life purpose. ~ Mark Helprin, #NFDB |
| 769:My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking. ~ Brad Pitt, #NFDB |
| 770:Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier. ~ Jared Spool, #NFDB |
| 771:Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 772:Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 773:Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB |
| 774:Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB |
| 775:Really, a critical matter in the public service is radically to improve the quality of management. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB |
| 776:Rule: It is the quality of time at work that counts and the quantity of time at home that matters. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB |
| 777:The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. ~ Tom Rath, #NFDB |
| 778:The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player. ~ Ron Fairly, #NFDB |
| 779:Theory of Constraints, Lean production or the Toyota Production System, and Total Quality Management. ~ Gene Kim, #NFDB |
| 780:The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge. ~ John Gruber, #NFDB |
| 781:The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real. ~ Jan de Bont, #NFDB |
| 782:There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life. ~ Loni Anderson, #NFDB |
| 783:The shortcomings of our system can be grouped into three basic problems: coverage, quality, and cost. ~ T R Reid, #NFDB |
| 784:Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways. ~ Rob Wittman, #NFDB |
| 785:we are able to create and re-create our lives and the very quality of human life on our planet. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB |
| 786:what we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life. ~ Cal Newport, #NFDB |
| 787:When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB |
| 788:When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by. ~ Shania Twain, #NFDB |
| 789:And many philosophers argue that the quality of your thoughts determine the quality of your life. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB |
| 790:Apparently it was cheap pig lard that had inspired the term ham, meaning a poor-quality performer. ~ Juliette Fay, #NFDB |
| 791:A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 792:But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB |
| 793:cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any monoprix store. it's built into all poor-quality goods. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB |
| 794:God is the sum of all desirable qualities, and he possesses every quality that is truly desirable. ~ Wayne Grudem, #NFDB |
| 795:He chuckled. “I plan to have you well rested, but not before we have some quality time together. ~ Amanda Carlson, #NFDB |
| 796:I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero. ~ Scott Adams, #NFDB |
| 797:—injecting the personal into the professional can boost performance and increase quality of care. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB |
| 798:I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 799:I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive. ~ Adolph Gottlieb, #NFDB |
| 800:Monterey is a place, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 801:No one knows the number of his days, but we have charge over the quality of the days we’re given. ~ Heather Burch, #NFDB |
| 802:Practice daily, because the quality of your practice determines the Caliber of your performance. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 803:The key to happiness lies in strength of mind, inner serenity, and a quality like steadfastness. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB |
| 804:The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know. ~ Ben Horowitz, #NFDB |
| 805:The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. ~ William Ramsay, #NFDB |
| 806:There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect. ~ Lang Leav, #NFDB |
| 807:The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 808:To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line. ~ David T Kearns, #NFDB |
| 809:Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 810:We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty. ~ Lady Gaga, #NFDB |
| 811:attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 812:Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods. ~ Graham Greene, #NFDB |
| 813:Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. ~ Marco Arment, #NFDB |
| 814:If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film. ~ Barry Green, #NFDB |
| 815:In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 816:I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television. ~ Nicolas Cage, #NFDB |
| 817:I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own. ~ Neville Marriner, #NFDB |
| 818:It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ~ William Ellery Channing, #NFDB |
| 819:It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.' ~ Jim Gaffigan, #NFDB |
| 820:<…> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...> ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 821:One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 822:Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. ~ Octavio Paz, #NFDB |
| 823:Someone smarter than either of us once said, ‘If you want a quality, act like you already have it. ~ Gregg Hurwitz, #NFDB |
| 824:Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible. ~ Javier Bardem, #NFDB |
| 825:The book takes a holistic view of three quality attributes—scalability, availability, and performance— ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 826:There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's. ~ Ed Gorman, #NFDB |
| 827:They both had that quality I found irresistible in women - they appeared to lack better options. ~ W Bruce Cameron, #NFDB |
| 828:A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. ~ William Dean Howells, #NFDB |
| 829:As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people. ~ Hassanal Bolkiah, #NFDB |
| 830:Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs. ~ William Boyd, #NFDB |
| 831:Everyone could have been pre-eminent at something, if they had been aware of their best quality. ~ Baltasar Graci n, #NFDB |
| 832:Humility counts for much, but it may be that vanity does not dispossess that admirable quality. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB |
| 833:I don’t worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it. ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 834:If you care for the quality of life in our American democracy, then you have to be for censorship. ~ Irving Kristol, #NFDB |
| 835:I learned early that the one truly international quality among people of all races is xenophobia. ~ Christopher Lee, #NFDB |
| 836:It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself. ~ Cynthia Ozick, #NFDB |
| 837:It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance. ~ Frances Hesselbein, #NFDB |
| 838:It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB |
| 839:[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind. ~ Hilary Mantel, #NFDB |
| 840:nothing matters but the quality of the affection— in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove ~ Mary Karr, #NFDB |
| 841:Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you. ~ Ford Madox Ford, #NFDB |
| 842:Our situation, with global warming and air quality and all of that, has gotten to be catastrophic. ~ Morgan Freeman, #NFDB |
| 843:Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB |
| 844:The absolute quality of hate explains any human action even if it throws something inhuman around it. ~ Elie Wiesel, #NFDB |
| 845:The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction. ~ Azar Nafisi, #NFDB |
| 846:We love the quality in a person, who can see themselves clearly and isn't ashamed of who they are. ~ Jon Turteltaub, #NFDB |
| 847:when you remove time," de becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 848:You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. ~ Tertullian, #NFDB |
| 849:You didn't cause this. This happened because your father is a lunatic dressed up in a quality suit. ~ Leigh Bardugo, #NFDB |
| 850:Consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions. ~ Gaston Bachelard, #NFDB |
| 851:Courage is a habit that is learned by acting courageously whenever the quality of courage is required. ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB |
| 852:Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, #NFDB |
| 853:Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB |
| 854:For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB |
| 855:God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ~ Martin Buber, #NFDB |
| 856:if I examine myself closely enough, I find hints of every objectionable quality known to man. ~ George Alec Effinger, #NFDB |
| 857:If there’s a rating system for quality of hallucination, I can say I was definitely scoring pretty high ~ Mira Grant, #NFDB |
| 858:In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB |
| 859:It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB |
| 860:Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality. ~ Ornette Coleman, #NFDB |
| 861:My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear ~ Abdul Kalam, #NFDB |
| 862:Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving. ~ Warsan Shire, #NFDB |
| 863:Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry. ~ Nelson Shanks, #NFDB |
| 864:Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda, #NFDB |
| 865:that recurrent dream had the quality of not being remembered except within the dream itself ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez, #NFDB |
| 866:The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 867:There can be no doubt of this: All America is divided into two classes,- the quality and the equality. ~ Owen Wister, #NFDB |
| 868:There is plenty of competition in a Glasser Quality School in that there is winning but no losing. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB |
| 869:The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB |
| 870:The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB |
| 871:The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB |
| 872:The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 873:to become the person I need to be to create the success, freedom, and quality of life that I truly want. ~ Hal Elrod, #NFDB |
| 874:What usually matters in your life is not the magical moment, but the quality of your daily practice. ~ Eric Greitens, #NFDB |
| 875:Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB |
| 876:A second quality that I believe stands a leader in good stead is the ability to think creatively. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB |
| 877:Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings. ~ Whoopi Goldberg, #NFDB |
| 878:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others. ~ Winston Churchill, #NFDB |
| 879:Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB |
| 880:Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. ~ Robert Venturi, #NFDB |
| 881:During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. ~ Sara Shandler, #NFDB |
| 882:He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan) ~ Helen Boswell, #NFDB |
| 883:I'd like to be doing quality acting in a quality role and making as many people as possible happy. ~ John Larroquette, #NFDB |
| 884:If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB |
| 885:In the end, I realized the quality of my life was determined by the people I surrounded myself with. ~ Angelica Chase, #NFDB |
| 886:It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 887:It's about quality, not quantity. It's about the memories, the bond, the love. It's about the heart. ~ Shandy L Kurth, #NFDB |
| 888:Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself. ~ Don DeLillo, #NFDB |
| 889:Our goal is to create a quality of empathic connection that allows everyone's needs to be met. ~ Marshall B Rosenberg, #NFDB |
| 890:Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production. ~ Patricia Piccinini, #NFDB |
| 891:Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs ~ Joseph M Juran, #NFDB |
| 892:The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings. ~ Edsger Dijkstra, #NFDB |
| 893:The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way. ~ Bernie Sanders, #NFDB |
| 894:The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes. ~ Liz Wiseman, #NFDB |
| 895:There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. ~ Peter Zumthor, #NFDB |
| 896:The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB |
| 897:We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional. ~ William McDonough, #NFDB |
| 898:And I guess a man’s importance in the world can be measured by the quality and number of his glories. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |
| 899:A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB |
| 900:Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB |
| 901:Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality. ~ Enrique Pena Nieto, #NFDB |
| 902:Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value. ~ Baltasar Gracian, #NFDB |
| 903:for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality. ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB |
| 904:Fortitude: That quality of mind which does not care what happens so long as it does not happen to us. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB |
| 905:Goldilocks quality. Create a prototype with just enough quality to evoke honest reactions from customers. ~ Jake Knapp, #NFDB |
| 906:Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. ~ Laini Taylor, #NFDB |
| 907:I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zaf n, #NFDB |
| 908:I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon, #NFDB |
| 909:It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 910:It's all about the quality of the fabric, how soft it is and feeling comfortable in what you're wearing. ~ Kellan Lutz, #NFDB |
| 911:lower tacit-knowledge depreciation when we have less work-in-progress, resulting in higher quality. ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB |
| 912:Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 913:restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB |
| 914:She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. ~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, #NFDB |
| 915:The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support. ~ John Linder, #NFDB |
| 916:The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB |
| 917:THE MYTH: Money is the indicator of wealth. THE REALITY: Quality of life is the real indicator of wealth. ~ Alan Cohen, #NFDB |
| 918:The very weather seems to have a quality of the past, faded weather like that of old photographs. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 919:The world had a fragile liquid quality, running at the edges and spinning on previously unrevealed axes. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB |
| 920:Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. ~ Charles Darwin, #NFDB |
| 921:True love wasn’t about the amount of time you spent with someone, it was about the quality of the time. ~ Tracy Brogan, #NFDB |
| 922:We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. ~ Herb Alpert, #NFDB |
| 923:What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? ~ Brian Ferneyhough, #NFDB |
| 924:You’re so pompous.” “It’s my second best quality.” “What’s your first?” “It involves being naked. ~ Olivia Wildenstein, #NFDB |
| 925:Amores Perros" and "Once Were Warriors" had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me. ~ Brendan Fletcher, #NFDB |
| 926:Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ~ Walter Pater, #NFDB |
| 927:Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB |
| 928:Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. ~ Michael Chabon, #NFDB |
| 929:Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts. ~ Li Keqiang, #NFDB |
| 930:I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role. ~ Priyanka Chopra, #NFDB |
| 931:It’s never been hard for me to fall in love, a quality that has yet to simplify one single day of my life. ~ Leif Enger, #NFDB |
| 932:My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint. ~ Derek Fisher, #NFDB |
| 933:Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. ~ Theodore White, #NFDB |
| 934:The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. ~ George H Mead, #NFDB |
| 935:The deputy possessed that distinctly male quality of pretending to know where he was, even when he didn’t. ~ Hugh Howey, #NFDB |
| 936:The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, #NFDB |
| 937:Thought that is worth calling thought has no mercy on itself, that is the dreadful proof of its quality. ~ Rebecca West, #NFDB |
| 938:Total commitment is a crucial quality for those who want to reach the very top of their profession. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam, #NFDB |
| 939:Victims declare,“The world is responsible for me,” and never do anything to better their quality of life. ~ Henry Cloud, #NFDB |
| 940:We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship. ~ James MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 941:Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB |
| 942:ABDITIVE (A'BDITIVE) adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 943:Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 944:A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art. ~ Jeffrey Lewis, #NFDB |
| 945:Being pretty is fundamentally a passive quality; even when you work at it, you’re working at being passive. ~ Ted Chiang, #NFDB |
| 946:Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB |
| 947:Calm, quiet, dark evenings, and consistent bed and wake times are critical factors for high quality sleep. ~ Mark Sisson, #NFDB |
| 948:Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised ~ Dick Durbin, #NFDB |
| 949:I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man. ~ Robert Andrews Millikan, #NFDB |
| 950:I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they? ~ Mark Z Danielewski, #NFDB |
| 951:I love the quality, feel and history of film. I love the pictures of the giant cameras and the way it was. ~ David Lynch, #NFDB |
| 952:Influence could get me inside the door, but my productivity and the quality of my work were the real tests. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB |
| 953:I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. ~ Cat Deeley, #NFDB |
| 954:Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow ~ Vince Lombardi, #NFDB |
| 955:Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck. ~ Dermot Mulroney, #NFDB |
| 956:<...> God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly. <...>. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 957:One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality. ~ Alfred Bester, #NFDB |
| 958:There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 959:there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 960:The soul gives us resilience - an essential quality since we constantly have to rebound from hardship. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB |
| 961:This desire [to write] is rather strange all the same and is not without a certain "cracked" quality. ~ Jean Paul Sartre, #NFDB |
| 962:Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 963:With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master. ~ Joel Kinnaman, #NFDB |
| 964:Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are. ~ Laozi, #NFDB |
| 965:Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. ~ Rahm Emanuel, #NFDB |
| 966:Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB |
| 967:Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation. ~ Hannah Arendt, #NFDB |
| 968:How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life. ~ Darren Johnson, #NFDB |
| 969:Humility is the most important quality in the spiritual life. When it is lacking spiritual growth stops. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 970:I don't want every fan; I'm interested in fans interested in quality work, authentic archetype depictions. ~ Romany Malco, #NFDB |
| 971:In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 972:I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. ~ Gus Van Sant, #NFDB |
| 973:It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. ~ Rube Goldberg, #NFDB |
| 974:Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana, #NFDB |
| 975:Quality wine, Scotch, and coffee had been the three irreplaceable commodities after the death of Old Earth. ~ Dan Simmons, #NFDB |
| 976:The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. ~ Dwight D Eisenhower, #NFDB |
| 977:The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them. ~ Widad Akreyi, #NFDB |
| 978:The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself ~ Anthony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 979:Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. ~ Rajneesh, #NFDB |
| 980:We buy time where we may.” “You bought yourself time,” Oi agreed. “I don’t think it’s of very good quality. ~ John Scalzi, #NFDB |
| 981:When teams are asked to work together to analyze problems and design solutions, the quality is higher. ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB |
| 982:Allport did acknowledge the possibility of the unique quality of group identity relative to personal identity. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 983:Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 984:In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education. ~ Arne Duncan, #NFDB |
| 985:It is never possible to love a person or an object. Love is defined precisely by its unconditional quality. ~ Rupert Spira, #NFDB |
| 986:Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill. ~ Louise Hay, #NFDB |
| 987:Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone. ~ Janet Morris, #NFDB |
| 988:Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness. ~ Louis Pasteur, #NFDB |
| 989:Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise. ~ Kaoru Ishikawa, #NFDB |
| 990:She had a poignantly vacant, vulnerable quality that made her a reflection of everybody's private fantasies. ~ Andy Warhol, #NFDB |
| 991:Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy. ~ Aaron Swartz, #NFDB |
| 992:The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. ~ Andy Hargreaves, #NFDB |
| 993:Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB |
| 994:But you stayed where you were meant to be, and you didn't listen to them. Well done. That's quality, that is. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 995:Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB |
| 996:For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness. ~ Alex Ebert, #NFDB |
| 997:For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living. ~ Joseph Conrad, #NFDB |
| 998:Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin, #NFDB |
| 999:If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 1000:If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes. ~ Eliyahu M Goldratt, #NFDB |
| 1001:Intuitive predictions are almost completely insensitive to the actual predictive quality of the evidence. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB |
| 1002:know who you want to be and take the next step that points you in the direction of that character quality. ~ Lysa TerKeurst, #NFDB |
| 1003:Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction. ~ Janny Wurts, #NFDB |
| 1004:Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 1005:moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. ~ Ambrose Bierce, #NFDB |
| 1006:the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death. ~ Arianna Huffington, #NFDB |
| 1007:The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering. ~ Matthieu Ricard, #NFDB |
| 1008:Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption. ~ Joseph Fiennes, #NFDB |
| 1009:You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content. ~ Chris Hardwick, #NFDB |
| 1010:You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1011:And if quality were truly the goal, then how come a company like Rolls Royce very nearly went bankrupt? ~ Eliyahu M Goldratt, #NFDB |
| 1012:Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. ~ Nigella Lawson, #NFDB |
| 1013:A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB |
| 1014:Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general. ~ Marcel Duchamp, #NFDB |
| 1015:... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor. ~ Richard G Wilkinson, #NFDB |
| 1016:for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 1017:GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 1018:Generosity has such power because it is characterized by the inner quality of letting go or relinquishing. ~ Sharon Salzberg, #NFDB |
| 1019:I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB |
| 1020:I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity. ~ Daphne du Maurier, #NFDB |
| 1021:I want people to have the practical tools and resources they need to lead high quality, authentic lives. ~ Cheryl Richardson, #NFDB |
| 1022:People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 1023:Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. ~ Jewel, #NFDB |
| 1024:The dips contain amazing learnings and wisdom that lead to sharper rises in the quality of life afterward. ~ Vishen Lakhiani, #NFDB |
| 1025:The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne, #NFDB |
| 1026:The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB |
| 1027:There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks. ~ Susan E Isaacs, #NFDB |
| 1028:The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 1029:We have no idea how the subjective quality of consciousness emerges from the physical stuff of the brain. ~ Richard Davidson, #NFDB |
| 1030:Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke, #NFDB |
| 1031:All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. ~ Baruch Spinoza, #NFDB |
| 1032:Caring for people often takes the form of concern for the quality of their stories, not for their feelings. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB |
| 1033:Growth. Money. Quality. Creativity. Those are four pretty valid reasons why you should be thinking about process. ~ Rick Webb, #NFDB |
| 1034:I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease. ~ David Chang, #NFDB |
| 1035:Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important? ~ Robert Owen, #NFDB |
| 1036:Quality is a tremendous filter. Cream always rises, my friends, no matter how many cups of coffee you pour. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk, #NFDB |
| 1037:quality naps can make up for lost night sleep—but extra nighttime sleep does not make up for missed naps, ~ Elizabeth Pantley, #NFDB |
| 1038:The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. ~ Margaret Deland, #NFDB |
| 1039:The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. ~ Ramsey Clark, #NFDB |
| 1040:The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB |
| 1041:The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. ~ Sun Tzu, #NFDB |
| 1042:To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is. ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB |
| 1043:Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness). ~ Sathya Sai Baba, #NFDB |
| 1044:YOU NEED BOTH QUALITY AND RESULTS. RESULTS WITHOUT QUALITY IS BORING; QUALITY WITHOUT RESULTS IS MEANINGLESS. ~ Johan Cruijff, #NFDB |
| 1045:But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB |
| 1046:However, there is a better way to be prepared for whatever you will encounter today: Spend quality time with Me. ~ Sarah Young, #NFDB |
| 1047:I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live. ~ Grace Jones, #NFDB |
| 1048:I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking. ~ Angela Carter, #NFDB |
| 1049:I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. ~ V S Naipaul, #NFDB |
| 1050:It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain. ~ Swami Vivekananda, #NFDB |
| 1051:It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 1052:I would define development by focusing on the quality of life of the lower 25 percent of the population. This ~ Muhammad Yunus, #NFDB |
| 1053:Knives can be quite useful to a lady of quality. Swords are for men; they are too easily caught in the skirts. ~ Gail Carriger, #NFDB |
| 1054:Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading. ~ Nicolas Winding Refn, #NFDB |
| 1055:Only a boring man will always want things to match; real quality lies in irregularity―another excellent remark. ~ Yoshida Kenk, #NFDB |
| 1056:Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. ~ Peter Drucker, #NFDB |
| 1057:since dispassionate self-knowledge is not a quality held in much esteem by the majority of the human race, ~ Donald E Westlake, #NFDB |
| 1058:The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having. ~ Dov Davidoff, #NFDB |
| 1059:There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye. ~ Tim Ferriss, #NFDB |
| 1060:There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education. ~ Daphne Koller, #NFDB |
| 1061:You know what I think my best quality is? I think I'm nice to have around. I'd hate it if I weren't around! ~ Charles M Schulz, #NFDB |
| 1062:All genuine epiphanies seem to follow this model: their defining quality is the relinquishment of delusion. ~ Steven Pressfield, #NFDB |
| 1063:AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality. ~ Jamie Bell, #NFDB |
| 1064:Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature … He is a holy intelligent person. ~ John Owen, #NFDB |
| 1065:Eat like an emperor. That does not depend on the quality of the food, it depends on the eater, the way he celebrates it. ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 1066:For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new. ~ Ralph Lauren, #NFDB |
| 1067:Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. ~ Mary Hunter Austin, #NFDB |
| 1068:Her face had an imperious, timeless quality that I’d learned to recognize. It meant I’m a goddess; deal with it. ~ Rick Riordan, #NFDB |
| 1069:I think New York has the most diverse and best quality representation of so many different cuisines at all levels. ~ Bobby Flay, #NFDB |
| 1070:It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. ~ Abraham Lincoln, #NFDB |
| 1071:It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men. ~ John Chadwick, #NFDB |
| 1072:Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. ~ Pamela Stephenson, #NFDB |
| 1073:More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives. ~ David Maister, #NFDB |
| 1074:My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't. ~ Francois Pinault, #NFDB |
| 1075:Our children need to know that the quality of their inner life will manifest in their external circumstances. ~ Shefali Tsabary, #NFDB |
| 1076:Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 1077:Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs. ~ W Somerset Maugham, #NFDB |
| 1078:The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB |
| 1079:The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB |
| 1080:The experience does not depend on the object. The experience depends on the experiencer, on the quality of experiencing. ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 1081:The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness. ~ Meher Baba, #NFDB |
| 1082:The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. ~ Richard Rogers, #NFDB |
| 1083:The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB |
| 1084:the quality of our social relations has been shown to be one of the best predictors for our emotional well-being. ~ Meik Wiking, #NFDB |
| 1085:the quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work ~ Brian Tracy, #NFDB |
| 1086:The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 1087:The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. ~ Norman Vincent Peale, #NFDB |
| 1088:We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB |
| 1089:Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated. ~ William Hazlitt, #NFDB |
| 1090:Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. ~ Rose Wilder Lane, #NFDB |
1091:All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
~ Baruch Spinoza,#NFDB |
| 1092:Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. ~ Blaise Pascal, #NFDB |
| 1093:Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies. ~ Jim Butcher, #NFDB |
| 1094:I am astonished by the amount and quality of love that is available if we will ask, and participate and show up for life. ~ Sark, #NFDB |
| 1095:like my body—I may not control the expiration date, but I can certainly influence the quality of the shelf life. ~ Gay Hendricks, #NFDB |
| 1096:Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. ~ Walter J Phillips, #NFDB |
| 1097:Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria ~ Ezra Pound, #NFDB |
| 1098:Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance! ~ Thomas Berry, #NFDB |
| 1099:One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 1100:Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing. ~ Elizabeth George, #NFDB |
| 1101:Quality begins with me. And I need to make my own decisions based on carefully selected principles and values. ~ Stephen R Covey, #NFDB |
| 1102:Quality superintelligence: A system that is at least as fast as a human mind and vastly qualitatively smarter. As ~ Nick Bostrom, #NFDB |
| 1103:She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling. ~ Miranda July, #NFDB |
| 1104:Shrimp and scallops are also healthy forms of seafood low in toxins and high in good quality protein and minerals. ~ Rick Warren, #NFDB |
| 1105:The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB |
| 1106:The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB |
| 1107:Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. ~ David Allen, #NFDB |
| 1108:To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. ~ Jon Kabat Zinn, #NFDB |
| 1109:We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, #NFDB |
| 1110:Because it’s hard for people to gauge quality by flavor, they tend to gauge it by price. That’s a mistake. Langstaff ~ Mary Roach, #NFDB |
| 1111:Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 1112:Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? ~ Herman Melville, #NFDB |
| 1113:I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. ~ Michael Connelly, #NFDB |
| 1114:(I’ve always believed that the imagination is a spiritual quality that, like memory, can be trained and developed.) ~ Luis Bu uel, #NFDB |
| 1115:I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality. ~ Timothy Omundson, #NFDB |
| 1116:Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd. ~ Timothy Keller, #NFDB |
| 1117:Look in, let not either the proper quality, or the true worth of anything pass thee, before thou hast fully it. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 1118:Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback. ~ Charles Dickens, #NFDB |
| 1119:Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright, #NFDB |
| 1120:that very rare ability called imagination, that rarer quality called courage, and who make things happen. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB |
| 1121:The God of the Presence imbues the joy of completion. Love is not a “quality” of God but is God’s very essence. ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB |
| 1122:The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. ~ John Oliver, #NFDB |
| 1123:There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages. ~ James K Morrow, #NFDB |
| 1124:We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits. ~ James Clear, #NFDB |
| 1125:When you really respect somebody who does something different from you, your respect is for the quality of the job. ~ Dave Hickey, #NFDB |
| 1126:You are not a goatherd. You are a student of the Lethani. My student. You should speak as a person of quality. ~ Patrick Rothfuss, #NFDB |
| 1127:Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them. ~ Natasha Lyonne, #NFDB |
| 1128:All of the most fulfilled people I know focus more on the quality of their connections than the quantity of them. ~ Jocelyn K Glei, #NFDB |
| 1129:Day had surrendered her rays, but the field, made from some newfangled artificial turf, had stadium-quality lights. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB |
| 1130:I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude. ~ Kirsten Dunst, #NFDB |
| 1131:I like that he doubts us, but his loyalty to me trumps his reasoning. I’m sure very few people have that quality. ~ Colleen Hoover, #NFDB |
| 1132:One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
1133:So it may be that reading your work aloud will not only improve
its quality but save your life in the process. ~ Francine Prose,#NFDB |
| 1134:The great epochs of our lives occur when we acquire the courage to rename our evil quality our best quality. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, #NFDB |
| 1135:The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it. ~ Guy Finley, #NFDB |
| 1136:We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. ~ Tami Hoag, #NFDB |
| 1137:Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB |
| 1138:As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools. ~ Kaoru Ishikawa, #NFDB |
| 1139:Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing. ~ Wynton Marsalis, #NFDB |
| 1140:Get really, really good so that when people say your name, your name is associated with quality, with integrity. ~ Freddy Rodriguez, #NFDB |
| 1141:I still don’t know if this is a good quality or a bad one, to be able to be in the moment and then step out of it. ~ David Levithan, #NFDB |
| 1142:It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ~ George MacDonald, #NFDB |
| 1143:I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. ~ Chaim Potok, #NFDB |
| 1144:Love is not born of coarseness,” Phoebe said quietly. “The ability to love is the noblest quality a man can possess. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB |
| 1145:Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld, #NFDB |
| 1146:Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives. ~ Eric Hoffer, #NFDB |
| 1147:Strength isn’t the only quality that matters. Sometimes it doesn’t matter at all. Strength is rarely a disadvantage. ~ Jack Donovan, #NFDB |
| 1148:The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours. ~ W Edwards Deming, #NFDB |
| 1149:The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it ~ Henry Mayhew, #NFDB |
| 1150:The fun had been so bland, so lightly handled, that its essential quality, its ruthlessness, had not been apparent. ~ Josephine Tey, #NFDB |
| 1151:The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. ~ Robertson Davies, #NFDB |
| 1152:Whether we're in retreat or out in the world, we should try to develop the quality of awareness as much as possible. ~ Tenzin Palmo, #NFDB |
| 1153:You needed to show your people that you meant it when you said that while efficiency was a goal, quality was the goal. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 1154:anyone who ignores base rates and the quality of evidence in probability assessments will certainly make mistakes. ~ Daniel Kahneman, #NFDB |
| 1155:Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. ~ Dorothy Allison, #NFDB |
| 1156:Excellence, quality, and good should be earned words, attributed by others to us, not proclaimed by us about ourselves. ~ Ed Catmull, #NFDB |
| 1157:Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ~ Dale Carnegie, #NFDB |
| 1158:Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB |
| 1159:I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB |
| 1160:In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality. ~ Jean Pierre Jeunet, #NFDB |
| 1161:I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women. ~ Natalie Dormer, #NFDB |
| 1162:It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic. ~ Sarah MacLean, #NFDB |
| 1163:It is in the nature of the mind that when you habituate it with a positive quality it can be developed limitlessly. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB |
| 1164:Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1165:My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple. ~ Jacoby Ellsbury, #NFDB |
| 1166:Pay close attention to detail in whatever it is you are doing. Be specific and expect quality from your performance. ~ Robert Cheeke, #NFDB |
| 1167:People don’t expect crazy quality from front desk agents at 3: 00 a.m. They just expect them not to be totally crazy. ~ Jacob Tomsky, #NFDB |
| 1168:Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map. ~ Ed Seykota, #NFDB |
| 1169:quality, but for most investors these are commodity plays: bulkers = China raw material imports; tankers = oil contango. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1170:Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them. ~ Theodor Adorno, #NFDB |
| 1171:Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. ~ George Henry Lewes, #NFDB |
| 1172:(respect for the weak being, after intellectual courage, the second most attractive quality to this author), ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB |
| 1173:The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly. ~ F Lee Bailey, #NFDB |
| 1174:There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! ~ William Congreve, #NFDB |
| 1175:There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same. ~ Osho, #NFDB |
| 1176: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, #NFDB |
| 1177:Tiffany’s blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and “price is no object. ~ Seth Godin, #NFDB |
| 1178:To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live ~ Ken Livingstone, #NFDB |
| 1179:Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? ~ Villiers de L Isle Adam, #NFDB |
| 1180:When the mind, through the quality of extreme purity, merges in the Heart, it will attain perfection as peace. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, #NFDB |
| 1181:Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB |
| 1182:You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. ~ Bertrand Meyer, #NFDB |
| 1183:And the data on everything from air quality to commodity prices to levels of violence show improvement over time. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson, #NFDB |
| 1184:But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good. ~ Bill Nye, #NFDB |
| 1185:...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. ~ Joseph M Juran, #NFDB |
| 1186:How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men! ~ Vincent Massey, #NFDB |
| 1187:How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives. ~ Sam Harris, #NFDB |
| 1188:I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous. ~ Eartha Kitt, #NFDB |
| 1189:I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca. However, ~ Issa Rae, #NFDB |
| 1190:Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 1191:Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless. ~ Georges Bernanos, #NFDB |
| 1192:My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB |
| 1193:No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ~ James Branch Cabell, #NFDB |
| 1194:Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. ~ Amy Tan, #NFDB |
| 1195:Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. ~ F R Leavis, #NFDB |
| 1196:The couples that did the novel and exciting activities showed a significantly greater increase in relationship quality. ~ Aziz Ansari, #NFDB |
1197:The end product of the shorter
deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater
focus. ~ Timothy Ferriss,#NFDB |
| 1198:The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, #NFDB |
| 1199:The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches. ~ John Heider, #NFDB |
| 1200:The more excited the rooster gets, the higher his voice goes. He's got a little bit of a Barney Fife quality to him. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB |
| 1201:The only difference between working on a huge-budget film and a lesser-budget film, is the quality of lunch and dinner. ~ Ving Rhames, #NFDB |
| 1202:The only thing that matters, at the end of a stay on earth, is how well did we love, what was the quality of our love? ~ Richard Bach, #NFDB |
| 1203:The sattwic quality is a first mediator between the higher and the lower nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, Deva and Asura, #NFDB |
| 1204:The trick isn’t to simply publish a book; the trick is to produce a quality book package to surround the book’s content ~ Hank Quense, #NFDB |
| 1205:To dramatically improve the quality of your life, you must cultivate a new perspective of why you are here on Earth. ~ Robin S Sharma, #NFDB |
| 1206:To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. ~ Marcus Aurelius, #NFDB |
| 1207:But...ah...not that I'm on your side now or anything, but you haven't exactly got a lot of time for drama of this quality. ~ Lia Habel, #NFDB |
| 1208:...by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB |
| 1209:Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. ~ William Glasser, #NFDB |
| 1210:I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie. ~ Tommy Wiseau, #NFDB |
| 1211:Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response. ~ Stephen Covey, #NFDB |
| 1212:It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything. ~ Tom Peters, #NFDB |
| 1213:Of course people need not be always talking well. Only one tells the quality of their minds when they try to talk well. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB |
| 1214:The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw. ~ Eli Manning, #NFDB |
| 1215:usually more time is spent in making good-looking presentation slides than in improving the quality of the software. ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB |
| 1216:We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records. ~ Christopher Cross, #NFDB |
| 1217:We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope). ~ Gabe Newell, #NFDB |
| 1218:We need a cost-effective, high-quality health care system, guaranteeing health care to all of our people as a right. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB |
| 1219:We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB |
| 1220:Because in my experience, patriotism, while a fine quality, can fuel quite a dangerous agenda if taken to the extreme. ~ David Baldacci, #NFDB |
| 1221:Even if your company’s financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won’t. ~ Jim Blasingame, #NFDB |
| 1222:Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 1223:Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent. ~ Ralph Fiennes, #NFDB |
| 1224:Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty of the creature, and the root of every good quality. ~ Andrew Murray, #NFDB |
| 1225:In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important. ~ Les Wexner, #NFDB |
| 1226:I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity. ~ Sharon Stone, #NFDB |
| 1227:I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality. ~ Connor Franta, #NFDB |
| 1228:Kindness wasn’t a passive quality. It was a choice one had to make, and right then, Ivy didn’t feel much like making it. ~ Melissa Grey, #NFDB |
| 1229:Marry a person who loves you a lot, but more important, loves you best, because quality beats quantity any day. ~ Nora McInerny Purmort, #NFDB |
| 1230:Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself. ~ Moshe Feldenkrais, #NFDB |
| 1231:Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. ~ Desiderius Erasmus, #NFDB |
| 1232:Respect for the power and the dynamic transforming quality of the unconscious is the essence of the Jungian tradition. ~ Deldon McNeely, #NFDB |
| 1233:Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general. ~ Elliott Erwitt, #NFDB |
| 1234:The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation. ~ Vijay Govindarajan, #NFDB |
| 1235:The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. ~ Edward Hopper, #NFDB |
1236:The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk ~ David Eddings,#NFDB |
| 1237:Thoughts create only according to their pitch, intensity, emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibrational plane. ~ Claude M Bristol, #NFDB |
| 1238:We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad. ~ David Gill, #NFDB |
| 1239:When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her. ~ John C Maxwell, #NFDB |
| 1240:Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change. ~ Robert Kennedy, #NFDB |
| 1241:You like to write. I value that in you. It's the single most important quality for somebody who wants to be a writer. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1242:As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil;So will a man's reason vary with the quality of his friends. ~ Thiruvalluvar, #NFDB |
| 1243:But I am constant as the northern star, of whose tru-fixed and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1244:Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ Winston S Churchill, #NFDB |
| 1245: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, #NFDB |
| 1246:He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #NFDB |
| 1247:I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. ~ Toyo Ito, #NFDB |
| 1248:I dream of a Digital India where quality healthcare percolates right up to the remotest regions powered by e-Healthcare. ~ Narendra Modi, #NFDB |
| 1249:I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on. ~ Mindy Kaling, #NFDB |
| 1250:It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing. ~ Andre Gide, #NFDB |
| 1251:Memory is the corner stone of our existence. It determines the quality of our decisions and, therefore, our entire life! ~ Kevin Horsley, #NFDB |
| 1252:No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality. ~ Kara Swisher, #NFDB |
| 1253:Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection. ~ Jeremy Denk, #NFDB |
| 1254:The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians. ~ Matt Cameron, #NFDB |
| 1255:The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about. ~ Stormie Omartian, #NFDB |
| 1256:There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino ~ Shahrukh Khan, #NFDB |
| 1257:There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks. ~ James Allen, #NFDB |
| 1258:There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind. ~ Aberjhani, #NFDB |
| 1259:To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable. ~ Tony Robbins, #NFDB |
| 1260:When I married Wilnelia, one of the first things I wanted to know about Puerto Rico was the quality of the golf courses. ~ Bruce Forsyth, #NFDB |
| 1261:While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB |
| 1262:You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB |
| 1263:A person’s general goodness is in direct correlation to the force, or quality, of the kind thoughts he or she generates. ~ Dalai Lama XIV, #NFDB |
| 1264:Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. ~ William Drummond, #NFDB |
| 1265:Everybody liked Frank, because Frank had that one quality no one could resist—he knew who he was and still liked himself. ~ Loretta Nyhan, #NFDB |
| 1266:Four AM last call proved to me that the late-night hours had a mystical, ethereal quality ripe with dangerous possibilities. ~ Roz Bailey, #NFDB |
| 1267:If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity. ~ Robin Morgan, #NFDB |
| 1268:In acceptance, there is a decreased preoccupation with “doingness,” a growing focus on the quality of beingness itself, ~ David R Hawkins, #NFDB |
| 1269:In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding. ~ Xavi, #NFDB |
| 1270:In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB |
| 1271:It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from - if you put quality work out there, it will be appreciated. ~ Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, #NFDB |
| 1272:I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters. ~ Max Lucado, #NFDB |
| 1273:Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God. ~ Mary Baker Eddy, #NFDB |
| 1274:Now that he was near her, this sighing of the human skin took on a dreamlike quality like the spell of the mountains. ~ Yasunari Kawabata, #NFDB |
| 1275:our values determine the nature of our problems, and the nature of our problems determines the quality of our lives. Values ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB |
| 1276:The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality. ~ Russell Baker, #NFDB |
| 1277:There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing. ~ David Oyelowo, #NFDB |
| 1278:There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me. ~ Anne Hathaway, #NFDB |
| 1279:There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. ~ Diane Arbus, #NFDB |
| 1280:We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. ~ Isabel Allende, #NFDB |
| 1281:Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 1282:Adam Geras puts this more eloquently: “Quality is about being prepared for the usual so you have time to tackle the unusual. ~ Gojko Adzic, #NFDB |
| 1283:A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom. ~ Michael Jordan, #NFDB |
| 1284:And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. ~ Hugh Grant, #NFDB |
| 1285:Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. ~ Peter Zumthor, #NFDB |
| 1286:As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life. ~ Bruce H Lipton, #NFDB |
| 1287:A simply luxurious life is not easy to create initially because it requires that we focus on quality and let go of excess. ~ Shannon Ables, #NFDB |
| 1288:But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1289:Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others. ~ William Manchester, #NFDB |
| 1290:Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality. ~ Walter Legge, #NFDB |
| 1291:Everyone has something good about them,” she said. “You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. ~ Jeannette Walls, #NFDB |
| 1292:Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. ~ Nick Hornby, #NFDB |
| 1293:Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB |
| 1294:I'm so grateful. I worked on some really quality projects as a kid and I was really lucky for the opportunities I got. ~ Jonathan Lipnicki, #NFDB |
| 1295:In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors. ~ John Milton, #NFDB |
| 1296:It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great. ~ Seneca, #NFDB |
| 1297:Kashmir has always been more than a mere place. It has the quality of an experience, or a state of mind, or perhaps an ideal. ~ Jan Morris, #NFDB |
| 1298:Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. ~ William Cobbett, #NFDB |
| 1299:Remember: The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts. ~ Darius Foroux, #NFDB |
| 1300:The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. ~ William James, #NFDB |
| 1301:The man in the dark suit sips his Laphroaig and water, savoring the marshy taste, the body-in-the-bog quality of the whisky. ~ Neil Gaiman, #NFDB |
| 1302:The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. ~ Harvey Mackay, #NFDB |
| 1303:The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. ~ Orison Swett Marden, #NFDB |
| 1304:There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad. ~ Henry Blodget, #NFDB |
| 1305:There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen. ~ Bob Lefsetz, #NFDB |
| 1306:The same quality that read as dependable and even-keeled in his youth had crusted over and become stubborn and pitiable. ~ Angela Flournoy, #NFDB |
| 1307:To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB |
| 1308:we are confident that the fundamental principle of long-term ownership of quality companies is a sensible one, new ~ Lawrence A Cunningham, #NFDB |
| 1309:When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design. ~ Mickey Hart, #NFDB |
1310:You've written three lines"
"Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember ~ Alexandra Adornetto,#NFDB |
| 1311:Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. ~ George Washington, #NFDB |
| 1312:I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better. ~ Alfonso Cuaron, #NFDB |
| 1313:I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them. ~ Patrick Grant, #NFDB |
| 1314:Mulberry Garden, now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceeding cheated at. ~ John Evelyn, #NFDB |
| 1315:My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality. ~ Max Beckmann, #NFDB |
| 1316:My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality. ~ Thomas A Edison, #NFDB |
| 1317:one of the many companies J.J. McCracken owned made high-quality surveillance cameras, so he’d given himself a deal on them. ~ Stuart Gibbs, #NFDB |
| 1318: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, #NFDB |
| 1319:Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting. ~ Joseph Joubert, #NFDB |
1320:The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person,"
(P. 1) ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,#NFDB |
| 1321:The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions. ~ Benjamin Graham, #NFDB |
| 1322:The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. ~ Oscar Wilde, #NFDB |
| 1323:There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. ~ Neville Cardus, #NFDB |
| 1324:Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working. —Anonymous ~ David Allen, #NFDB |
| 1325:Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production. ~ Herbert Hoover, #NFDB |
| 1326:When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients. ~ Travis Browne, #NFDB |
| 1327:Why are you alone? I mean, we are all alone. Aloneness is... that´s life. It´s the quality of our aloneness that matters. ~ Chuck Palahniuk, #NFDB |
| 1328:You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything. ~ Peter Berg, #NFDB |
| 1329:You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1330:Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians. ~ Ma Ying jeou, #NFDB |
| 1331:French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality. ~ Mireille Guiliano, #NFDB |
| 1332:Happiness doesn't come from commercial success but from the quality of work that you give back to your immediate community. ~ Adrian Grenier, #NFDB |
| 1333:Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them. ~ Scott Lynch, #NFDB |
| 1334:His voice wasn’t loud, but there was a quality to it that made Matt shiver even though he—for once—wasn’t the one in trouble. ~ Nancy Farmer, #NFDB |
| 1335:I am of the opinion that there is more high-quality television being produced than at any time in the history of television. ~ Michael Schur, #NFDB |
| 1336:I've always had a tomboy quality to me that I embrace and don't run away from. At the same time I'm a real girlie-girl. ~ Julianna Margulies, #NFDB |
| 1337:Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life. ~ Jaggi Vasudev, #NFDB |
| 1338:[Melania Trump] was always the highest quality that you'll ever find and the things they say, I've known her for a long time. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB |
| 1339:My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life. ~ Richard Artschwager, #NFDB |
| 1340:Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. ~ Michel Leiris, #NFDB |
| 1341:Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity. ~ Walter Bagehot, #NFDB |
| 1342:One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy. ~ Doris Lessing, #NFDB |
| 1343:Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. ~ Lord Chesterfield, #NFDB |
| 1344:Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor ~ Steve McConnell, #NFDB |
| 1345:There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored. ~ Rachel Carson, #NFDB |
| 1346:Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality. ~ Edward Thorndike, #NFDB |
| 1347:When love is unreliable and you are a child, you assume that it is the nature of love – its quality – to be unreliable. ~ Jeanette Winterson, #NFDB |
| 1348:When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB |
1349:Winnie, don't you ever think you're selling yourself short?"
"Nope. Never. I'm really good at picking quality dick. ~ Elizabeth Brown,#NFDB |
| 1350:A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality. ~ Carol Ann Tomlinson, #NFDB |
| 1351:Are my personal standards with reference to the quantity and quality of my output higher now than three or six months ago? ~ David J Schwartz, #NFDB |
| 1352:Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB |
| 1353:Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice. ~ Samuel Johnson, #NFDB |
| 1354:Gratitude is seeing how someone changed your heart and quality of life, helped you become the good parts of the person you are. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB |
| 1355:I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.' ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB |
| 1356:In this climate all things seek shade, and so a basic quality of the Deep South is that everything here is partially hidden. ~ Nic Pizzolatto, #NFDB |
| 1357:I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people. ~ Marilyn Manson, #NFDB |
| 1358:I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought. ~ Adolph Gottlieb, #NFDB |
| 1359:Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house by themselves. ~ John Malkovich, #NFDB |
| 1360:Purpose does not need to involve calculations or numbers. Purpose is about the quality of life. Purpose is human, not economic. ~ Simon Sinek, #NFDB |
| 1361:Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally. ~ Linus Torvalds, #NFDB |
| 1362:The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people. ~ Napoleon Hill, #NFDB |
| 1363:The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it. ~ Frances Hesselbein, #NFDB |
| 1364:...the prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, #NFDB |
| 1365:We all want to believe that the key to making an impact on someone lies with the inherent quality of the ideas we present. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB |
| 1366:We can change our quality of life by changing your attitude toward the big and small things that usually irritate and anger us. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 1367:Well I am glad I have something of the fool in my disposition--foolishness being the only quality that makes wisdom possible. ~ Marie Corelli, #NFDB |
| 1368:Well sure, who doesn’t need a boyfriend? But realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB |
| 1369:Well sure, who doesn't need a boyfriend? but realistically, those exotic creatures are hard to come by. At least a quality one. ~ Rachel Cohn, #NFDB |
| 1370:You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB |
| 1371:And me still not seeing, and the brightness coiled within me assumed an almost hushed quality, as if we were in a cathedral. ~ Jeff VanderMeer, #NFDB |
| 1372:And sitting around the table on the fine-quality chairs and sofas were Magnus Bane, Jem Carstairs, Catarina Loss, and Clary, ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB |
| 1373:A person’s quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need. ~ Ben Dolnick, #NFDB |
| 1374:being too controlling and micromanaging, or I can recognize that I’m very responsible, dependable, and committed to quality work. ~ Bren Brown, #NFDB |
| 1375:Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 1376:Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact. ~ David Foenkinos, #NFDB |
| 1377:First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. ~ Warren Buffett, #NFDB |
| 1378:I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger. ~ Kristen Stewart, #NFDB |
| 1379:In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, #NFDB |
| 1380:It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 1381:Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?" ~ Misha Collins, #NFDB |
| 1382:Other people showed love by offering compliments; Abby offered pity. It was not an attractive quality, in her children’s opinion. ~ Anne Tyler, #NFDB |
| 1383:Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing. ~ John Ruskin, #NFDB |
| 1384:Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. ~ G K Chesterton, #NFDB |
| 1385:Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence. ~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont, #NFDB |
| 1386:The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. ~ John Wyndham, #NFDB |
| 1387:The human hand has an amazing quality that nothing else has: tremendous efficiency of strength and yet total gentleness. ~ Francis A Schaeffer, #NFDB |
| 1388:The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 1389:They’d chosen each other for the reason most people chose each other: to get closer to some quality they didn’t naturally possess. ~ Aja Gabel, #NFDB |
| 1390:With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear. ~ Patrick Dempsey, #NFDB |
| 1391:Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way. ~ Erland Josephson, #NFDB |
| 1392:A defining feature of intuitive judgment is its insensitivity to the quality of the evidence on which the judgment is based. ~ Philip E Tetlock, #NFDB |
| 1393:Applebee’s is a chain of mid-quality restaurants serving “American food,” which essentially means that Everything Features Cheese. ~ John Green, #NFDB |
| 1394:As long as I have a studio with producers, I can make something everyday. And the people know what type of quality it's going to be. ~ Jadakiss, #NFDB |
| 1395:Equity literally means “the quality of being fair” or “impartiality.” Equality, on the other hand, means “the state of being equal. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1396:Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. ~ Siri Hustvedt, #NFDB |
| 1397:Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. ~ John Dewey, #NFDB |
| 1398:He was trained to exterminate, then count the dead with a maniacal obsession for numbers and industrial-quality efficiency. ~ Tania Crasnianski, #NFDB |
| 1399:I don’t think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality, said the painter Andrew Wyeth. ~ Margaret Roach, #NFDB |
| 1400:If you take your mind to a level of functioning that is beyond age, then your body will begin to be touched by the same quality. ~ Wayne W Dyer, #NFDB |
| 1401:It appears evident that, for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality. ~ David J Anderson, #NFDB |
| 1402:I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyretechnics associated with us ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB |
| 1403:It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #NFDB |
| 1404:One law of energy is this: energy of a certain quality or vibration tends to attract energy of a similar quality and vibration. ~ Shakti Gawain, #NFDB |
| 1405:Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality. ~ Martin Gore, #NFDB |
| 1406:standard-setting device." - Engadget "Its solid build quality, along with its improved design, integrated store, and cross-platform ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1407:There's a quality we could call vertical attention, which is an attention upward toward ancestors, spiritual states, angels, gods. ~ Robert Bly, #NFDB |
| 1408:They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB |
| 1409:Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance. ~ Prince Philip, #NFDB |
| 1410:Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything? ~ Auguste de Villiers de l Isle Adam, #NFDB |
1411:But I am constant as the Northern Star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament. ~ William Shakespeare,#NFDB |
| 1412:Determine the quality of life you want to have, and then surround yourself with the people who represent and support that vision. ~ Darren Hardy, #NFDB |
| 1413:Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality. ~ Sam Altman, #NFDB |
| 1414:Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training ~ Charles Handy, #NFDB |
| 1415:I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book. ~ Emile Hirsch, #NFDB |
| 1416:If someone likes my fiction more for the quality of my prose rather than the quality of my storytelling, I'm doing something wrong. ~ Jamie Ford, #NFDB |
| 1417:If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred. ~ Malala Yousafzai, #NFDB |
| 1418:I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB |
| 1419:Nen is mindfulness, attention to the present with a quality of vibrant awareness, as if this present moment were one’s last. ~ Peter Matthiessen, #NFDB |
| 1420:Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. ~ Seneca the Younger, #NFDB |
| 1421:Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most. ~ David Nicholls, #NFDB |
| 1422:The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB |
| 1423:The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them. ~ Thaddeus Stevens, #NFDB |
| 1424:The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. ~ William Faulkner, #NFDB |
| 1425:The quality of our life is greatly affected by the time we spend with God, and it should have a place of priority in our schedule. ~ Joyce Meyer, #NFDB |
| 1426:There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest. ~ Jonathan Swift, #NFDB |
| 1427:There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple. ~ Lee Iacocca, #NFDB |
| 1428:This PRS is perfect for anyone who wants an awesome quality, versatile, rockin' guitar at an affordable price. I love it; try it out! ~ Orianthi, #NFDB |
| 1429:Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business. ~ Susan Cain, #NFDB |
| 1430:Despite his size and broad-shouldered build, there was a feline quality about him…he was like a lazy but potentially deadly tiger. ~ Lisa Kleypas, #NFDB |
| 1431:Each of us starts with the same twenty-four hours in the day. How we utilize those hours determines the quality of our lives. ~ Peter H Diamandis, #NFDB |
| 1432:Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine. ~ Coco J Ginger, #NFDB |
| 1433:I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring. ~ Deepak Chopra, #NFDB |
| 1434:I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality. ~ Eva Green, #NFDB |
| 1435:I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it. ~ Peter Jennings, #NFDB |
| 1436:I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been. ~ John Glenn, #NFDB |
| 1437:No matter how far down the wrong road you go, turn back—there are other quality girls who will bang you without giving you a hard time. ~ Roosh V, #NFDB |
| 1438:Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs. ~ Mel Carnahan, #NFDB |
| 1439:The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 1440:there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary ~ Jane Austen, #NFDB |
| 1441:Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. ~ Morarji Desai, #NFDB |
| 1442:There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life. ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, #NFDB |
| 1443:War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. ~ Joe Haldeman, #NFDB |
| 1444:When I was coming up the DC Improv was considered the best Improv out there. It's always been high quality stuff coming out of there. ~ Bill Burr, #NFDB |
| 1445:you’d be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen. ~ Jason Fried, #NFDB |
| 1446:You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you. ~ Lora Leigh, #NFDB |
| 1447: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. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB |
| 1448:Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman. ~ Elizabeth Lesser, #NFDB |
| 1449:Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals. ~ John Manley, #NFDB |
| 1450:But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat. ~ Sean Patrick, #NFDB |
| 1451:But although quality, price, and advertising contribute to products and ideas being successful, they don’t explain the whole story. ~ Jonah Berger, #NFDB |
| 1452:I don't think all of my ideas are good. It's almost easier when people are critical of you because it helps with the quality control. ~ Seth Rogen, #NFDB |
| 1453:If wildlife cannot exist there will be poor quality for human life. A better world for wildlife means a better world for human life. ~ Carl Safina, #NFDB |
| 1454:I started out as an impressionist and that’s all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks. ~ Eddie Murphy, #NFDB |
| 1455:I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality. ~ Tom Colicchio, #NFDB |
| 1456:It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. ~ E J Hughes, #NFDB |
| 1457:It is difficult to remain an emperor in presence of a physician, and difficult even to keep one's essential quality as man. ~ Marguerite Yourcenar, #NFDB |
| 1458:It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used. ~ Jessica Valenti, #NFDB |
| 1459:Legislation is about three fundamental things - affordability, access, and quality. That's what the American people want. ~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell, #NFDB |
| 1460:Never dismiss the value of entertainment, Ceony. Good-quality entertainment is never free, and it’s something everyone wants. ~ Charlie N Holmberg, #NFDB |
| 1461:Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve. ~ Dick Cheney, #NFDB |
| 1462:perception can form a personal reality based on how a product is framed, even when there is little relationship with objective quality. ~ Nir Eyal, #NFDB |
| 1463:Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one’s a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB |
| 1464:The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand. ~ Miguel Ferrer, #NFDB |
| 1465:The quality of the problem that is found is a forerunner of the quality of the solution that is attained . . .” Getzels concluded. ~ Daniel H Pink, #NFDB |
| 1466:The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now. ~ Eckhart Tolle, #NFDB |
| 1467:There is an unmistakable look to prison muscles, a smooth, marblelike quality as opposed to their puffier health club counterparts. ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB |
| 1468:The running backs are the strengths of their football team. They have quality players who can do a number of things for their team. ~ Greg Schiano, #NFDB |
| 1469:These days, we prefer the quick fix of instant information and low-quality entertainment over real-world interactions and experiences. ~ S J Scott, #NFDB |
| 1470:The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game. ~ Jack Welch, #NFDB |
| 1471:Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area. ~ Edward Abbey, #NFDB |
| 1472:We really care about our brand. We really want it to stand for high quality. We want people to be excited about it, for it to be fun. ~ Larry Page, #NFDB |
| 1473:When a woman encounters a man of that quality,” Penny continued, solemnly, “she dedicates herself to making herself worthy of him. ~ Terry Mancour, #NFDB |
| 1474:A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB |
| 1475:And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB |
| 1476:As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it. ~ Willie Morris, #NFDB |
| 1477:Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception. ~ Bernard Werber, #NFDB |
| 1478:Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise. ~ Aristotle, #NFDB |
| 1479:If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality. ~ Penelope Ann Miller, #NFDB |
| 1480:I had not considered the idea; rather than seeking to rule out variations in quality, accept and adopt the reality of imperfection. ~ Nick Harkaway, #NFDB |
| 1481:Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB |
| 1482:I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself ~ Katie Couric, #NFDB |
| 1483:It is important to recognize the limited ability of the legal system to prescribe and enforce the quality of social arrangements. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB |
| 1484:I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important. ~ Vivienne Westwood, #NFDB |
1485:Sit up, and no whining."
"I don't whine."
"Rarely," he agreed. But when you do, you make up for the lack of quantity with quality. ~ J D Robb,#NFDB |
| 1486:The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB |
| 1487:The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water. ~ Joe Hill, #NFDB |
| 1488:The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB |
| 1489:The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. ~ Robert Fripp, #NFDB |
| 1490:The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. ~ Ali MacGraw, #NFDB |
| 1491:The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB |
| 1492:The way she stood, graceful and lithe, spoke of beauty and dancing, but the sleek, predatory quality of her movements screamed danger. ~ K F Breene, #NFDB |
| 1493:What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important. ~ Leo Tolstoy, #NFDB |
| 1494:Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company. ~ George Washington, #NFDB |
| 1495:Consolidation in the skiing equipment industry cannot be allowed to lead to higher prices, lower quality or less innovative products. ~ Neelie Kroes, #NFDB |
| 1496:Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful. ~ Albert Hadley, #NFDB |
| 1497:Don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want to die alone, but spending quality time with myself 60 to 70 percent of the day is my idea of mecca. ~ Issa Rae, #NFDB |
| 1498:Everything was neat and organized, and I wondered if I surrounded myself with people who had that quality because I lacked it myself. ~ Liliana Hart, #NFDB |
| 1499:Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head. ~ Theodore Roosevelt, #NFDB |
| 1500:How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive? ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB |