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Quality Quotes

"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

"I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality."

Catherine Keener, American Actress

Quality, People, Play

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

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Quality, Concern, Improvement, Motives

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"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions."

"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions."

Sunil Gavaskar, Indian Athlete

Quality, Comparisons, Generations, Opposition

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"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Quality, Circumstances, Youth

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"You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle."

"You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle."

Timothy Dalton, Welsh Actor

Quality, Crisis, Man, Struggle

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"Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot."

"Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot."

Samuel Horsley, English Clergyman

Quality, Knowledge, Curiosity, Piety

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"We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them."

"We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them."

Paul Ince, English Athlete

Quality, Giving, Rest, Want

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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."

"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

Quality, Thoughts, Public, Will

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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."

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

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Quality, Growth, Discontent, Fact

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"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."

"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."

bell hooks, American Critic

Quality, Sleep, Trying

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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."

"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

Quality, Soul, Curiosity, Desire

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"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

"Greatness is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Greatness, Time, Value

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"Quality is better than quantity."

"Quality is better than quantity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Quality, Quantity, Values, Excellence

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"The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study."

"The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study."

William Ramsay, Scottish Scientist

Quality, Exercise, Mind, Study

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"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."

"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, American Businessman

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"The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation."

"The quality of goods and services are always viewed as more important than the compensation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Goods, Compensation, Value

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

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Time, Investment, Products

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"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."

"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, British Author

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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Quality, Tree Growth, Fruit Sweetness

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"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

"Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain."

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

"Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."

George Eliot, British Author

Quality, May, Order, Paradoxes

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"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."

"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Relationship, God, Life

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"The quality of life depends on the power of love."

"The quality of life depends on the power of love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Quality, Life, Love, Power

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"Become great by converting your time into quality product."

"Become great by converting your time into quality product."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Greatness, Time, Product

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

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Quality, Time, Product, Investment

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"What is easy is seldom excellent."

"What is easy is seldom excellent."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Quality, Excellence, Effort, Values, Achievement

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Quality, Effort, Reward, Achievement

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Quality, Quantity

"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."

"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, French Author

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