Quotes about Quality

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

Mansfield was like near-beer. It was better to drink water.

A nation that has forgotten the quality of leadership it took to make a civilization great in the past is not likely to insist on greatness in its leaders today.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine.

Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.