Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Daniel Kahneman

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

Ovid

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Emma Thompson

My worst quality is impatience.

Debbie Ford

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.

Don King

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

Douglas William Jerrold

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Douglas William Jerrold

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Don Henley

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

Don Marquis

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Dalai Lama

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

Dalai Lama

All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.

Desmond Tutu

Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.

Deepak Chopra

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

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

Andy Stanley

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

Ann Patchett

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Anne Hathaway

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.

Andrew Wyeth

I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck D.

Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.

Andreas Schleicher

You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don't spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won't get higher student outcomes.

Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

Andrew Lau

I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.

Ambrose Bierce

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Anna Quindlen

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.

Cindy Crawford

I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon,

Alfred Austin

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Alfonso Cuaron

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.

Michael McKean

Well, it's that everyone's got all these sketches, and there are ways other than quality to get them on. You know?

Alexis Carrel

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Eleanor Roosevelt

Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.