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Quality is more important than quantity. Whereas when you're younger you got to put in the hours, you got to put in the work, doesn't matter if you're tired, all these things, you just got to get through it, get match tough, go through the grind. – Roger Federer	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To buy them, the customer has to bring in a large quantity of cash under conditions that are not always optimal. – Soto Sanchez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I'm comfortable that ... he's a known quantity in the investment community, i'm not comfortable with the fact that we don't have more information on why the change was made. – Keith Davis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I’m comfortable that ... he’s a known quantity in the investment community, i’m not comfortable with the fact that we don’t have more information on why the change was made. – Keith Davis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Is there a ceiling on the heavy weapons systems that we should receive in terms of the quantity and quality? The answer is not very clear to us. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We'd like to thank the members of the (anti-IS) coalition for the support they have provided, but ... all the support we have received so far is not up to the level that is needed, The heavy weapons systems that we need, especially in terms of quality and quantity, for example the APCs (armored personnel carriers), the helicopters, the artillery we need for a decisive war against them (IS) - we have not received these types of weapons. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Love is a quality, not a quantity. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
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 steer is the way to it. – Hesiod	added by anonymous 10 years ago
There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. – Alfred North Whitehead	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. – David Hume	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever. – Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. – Mahatma Gandhi	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. – John F. Kennedy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. – Seneca	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine. – Stan Aogartem	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Quality is more important than quantity. Whereas when you're younger you got to put in the hours, you got to put in the work, doesn't matter if you're tired, all these things, you just got to get through it, get match tough, go through the grind.

– Roger Federer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To buy them, the customer has to bring in a large quantity of cash under conditions that are not always optimal.

– Soto Sanchez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm comfortable that ... he's a known quantity in the investment community, i'm not comfortable with the fact that we don't have more information on why the change was made.

– Keith Davis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I’m comfortable that ... he’s a known quantity in the investment community, i’m not comfortable with the fact that we don’t have more information on why the change was made.

– Keith Davis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Is there a ceiling on the heavy weapons systems that we should receive in terms of the quantity and quality? The answer is not very clear to us.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We'd like to thank the members of the (anti-IS) coalition for the support they have provided, but ... all the support we have received so far is not up to the level that is needed, The heavy weapons systems that we need, especially in terms of quality and quantity, for example the APCs (armored personnel carriers), the helicopters, the artillery we need for a decisive war against them (IS) - we have not received these types of weapons.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community. It is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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 steer is the way to it.

– Hesiod

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.

– The Talmud

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

– Alfred North Whitehead

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

– David Hume

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

– Gordon Moore, in a keynote address at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in 2003

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

– Mahatma Gandhi

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

– Voltaire

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

– John F. Kennedy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

– Mark Twain