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Quality Quotes
On standards, substance, and settling for nothing less.
These quotes measure quality across very different fields, a footballer praised for incredible skill, and a performer who insisted on attending a school of real quality rather than settling. See Best quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to grow up to be Tom Keneally or David Malouf: still in the game, relevant, putting out quality work, and paying tax aged 78 and 80.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chinese leaders are walking a tightrope in terms of maintaining internal stability so that the solid platform that has produced amazing results can continue to improve the quality of life for more of its citizens.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the challenges of having exceptionally high quality talent is that they're constantly restless, and they're constantly on the lookout for opportunities.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020