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"Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at."
"It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible."
"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."
"I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that."
"Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."
"Your habits will determine your quality of life."
"A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work."
"Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality."
"Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they begin to write. But it should be the quality of the craft, not the audience, that should be the greatest motivating factor."
"Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves."
"My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true."
"Things which any idiot could write usually have the quality of having been written by an idiot."
"So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer."
"Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work."
"Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach."
"How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes."
"The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama."
"There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have."
"An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."