"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."

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"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."

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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

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"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."

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"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"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, American Journalist

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"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."

"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

"The time you utilize doing something determines how good the product will be."

"The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim."

"The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products."

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him."

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."

"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

"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."

"I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us."

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"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."

"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you."

"The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell."

"I never liked mellow sounding guitar."

"What's really fun is to write under different names."

"It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing."