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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain
Mind
,
Sometimes
,
Week
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mahatma Gandhi
Work
,
God
,
Quality
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
Single
,
Moment
,
Else
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
Trust
,
Men
,
Bad
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Rather
,
Quality
,
Matters
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
Work
,
Time
,
Experience
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Michelle Obama
Help
,
Whole
,
Kids
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
Emile Zola
Cannot
,
Quality
,
Overwhelm
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle
Great
,
Men
,
Made
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
Best
,
Live
,
Mind
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin
Good
,
Women
,
Men
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
George MacDonald
Work
,
God
,
Best
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour
Money
,
Knowledge
,
Value
Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin
Art
,
After
,
Simplicity
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod
Long
,
Put
,
Road
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann
Education
,
Best
,
Alone
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
Milan Kundera
Words
,
Culture
,
Madness
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
Irving Babbitt
Sunday
,
Lazy
,
Perfect
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
Henry Hazlitt
Money
,
Power
,
Put
I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.
Keanu Reeves
Great
,
Law
,
Able
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler
Small
,
Actually
,
Ask
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Samuel Richardson
Great
,
Food
,
Enemy
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
Irving Babbitt
Today
,
Saying
,
Democracy
The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.
Don Marquis
Less
,
Public
,
Trouble
I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.
Reba McEntire
Family
,
Time
,
Special
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing
Knowledge
,
Mind
,
Quality
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jean-Luc Godard
Beauty
,
Passion
,
Fashion
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V. S. Naipaul
Wish
,
Meet
,
Paris
Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
Harlan Coben
Writing
,
Write
,
Few
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred.
Jules Renard
Matter
,
Write
,
Talent
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