Cardinal Quotes

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

Perfect, Cannot, Until

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Himself, Virtues, Suspects

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden

Cannot, Return, Perhaps

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Best, Done, Else

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Business, Virtues, Insist

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough

History, Old, Opinion

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Zedong

Leadership, Work, Point

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

War, Two, Force

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh

Rules, Number, Phone

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.
Meghan O'Rourke

Mother, Mind, Past

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.
Neil Diamond

Work, Job, Before

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.
Michael Mandelbaum

Movies, Sports, Win

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department.
Vincente Minnelli

Art, Grand, Department

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
Eva Longoria

Education, Work, Family

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
Abbe Pierre

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
Major Taylor

Greatest, Living, Show

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.
Aaron Neville

Heard, Surprised, Chosen

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns

Mind, Person, Three

If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.
Benmont Tench

Yourself, Song, Attention

In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein

Faith, Through, Days

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.
Eugene McCarthy

Seven, Sins, Presidency

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam

Boring, Old, Wrong

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.
Mark Warkentin

Talk, Rule, Sharks

I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.
Frank Keating

Heart, Enough, Put

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