Good Quality Quotes - Page 2

• There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

  Wesley Snipes

  Quality, Actors, Television

  Source: deadline.com

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Friends, Karma, Pride

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• The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.

  Carl Guardino

  Nature, Smart, Class

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• As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

  William Matthews

  Fire, Quality, Frost

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• One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Reflection, Men

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• Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Community, Quality

  Henry Adams (1973). “Historical Essays”, p.4, Georg Olms Verlag

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• One should feel that one's friends, the people who meditate around you, who seek, are likewise pligrims on a journey. They're traveling to eternity also. You should love them. Whenever you see a good quality in them, you should repect them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Journey, People

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• Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Knowing, Doubt, Criticism

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.

  Alessandro Del Piero

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

  Michael Bassey

  Quality, Negative Influence, Excuse

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• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  Yehuda Berg

  Light, Darkness, Quality

  "A Light of Hope in Mexico" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2011.

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• We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Quality, Venture, Faults

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

  Shirley Hazzard

  Commitment, Numbers, Forgiving

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “The Evening of the Holiday: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jealous, Buddhism, Thinking

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• Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Generosity, Quality

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.53

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• Learning to let things go is key for a good quality of living.

  Christina Perri

  Keys, Quality, Letting Things Go

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

  George Eliot

  Men, Fishing, Quality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.364, Wordsworth Editions

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• A stylish throw. A good quality throw can last a lifetime and adds a dash of color and pattern as well as comfort and a homey quality.

  Nina Campbell

  Color, Quality, Comfort

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• All I look for is good quality stuff. Whatever I read, if I like it, then I want to do it. It's as simple as that. I don't have a master plan of, "I should do this genre, and then this."

  Karen Gillan

  Simple, Quality, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• "I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore."

  Donald Barthelme

  Two, Rivers, Smell

  "The King". Book by Donald Barthelme, p. 94, 1990.

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• There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

  Peter Zumthor

  Real, Quality, Needs

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• The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Quality, Complaining

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Quality, Would Be, Be Good

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• Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

  William Cowper

  Lying, Sick, Solitude

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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