Top 1200 High-Quality Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

Keep it simple. Layer your leotard with high waisted skinny jeans, legwarmers, and heels or high boots.

After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.

I played Little League in junior high and high school.

I don't need anything to get high. I'm high on life.

My art is a disciplined high dive - high soar, simultaneous & polychromous, an exaltation of the verbal-visual... my dialogue.

What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared for the activity.

Watching the Dodgers perform at a really high level is a nice reminder to us as to how high the bar is.

Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I got high, and forgot I wasn't supposed to get high.

If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

I was a buzzsaw out there, high impact, high energy, I was quick.

The career high would be putting out a Kids of Widney High CD on my label, Ipecac Recordings.

If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?

The jobs of tomorrow are high tech and high skill.

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

Restoration is to some extent part of the digital age. These days, if you re-issue a movie in theaters or on Blu-ray, it has to be in high-quality condition: You have to restore. We plan a Paris cinema theater dedicated totally to classics. If we think there's an audience, we will release classics in theaters. People will discover that it's worth going to the cinema to see great movies of the past in perfect condition. I believe a lot in that.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

From day one, President Obama has made improving the quality of life for woman a top priority. It's why he created the White House Council on Women and Girls that I'm so proud to chair. Our directive was to look across the board at all of the federal agencies and determine what we could do to improve the quality of life for women and girls.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Everyone knows what crappy food is: high grease, high fat... or what clean eating is. They just make excuses not to do it.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards and we know if we've let ourselves or let the jersey down.

You see so many of these empowering songs where a woman saying, you know, I'm going to go out, I'm going to wear high heels, you know, short skirt or whatever. But the high heels are quite uncomfortable, and so how good about yourself are you really feeling walking out in high heels?

Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

What I feel responsible for is, if my name is on a comic, I want it to be the best-written comic that I can possibly do. I want it to include some new things we haven't seen before, new story ideas, new characters. Quality, quality art, all those kinds of things.

I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, they'd see I don't care in that respect. I obviously care about things sounding good, but I think quality exists through other things like emotionally connecting with a lyric or a feeling, or whatever.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

The most fun is the high bar - I just like the adrenaline rush of doing the high-flying releases.

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

We tend to think that, in a traditional organisation, people are producing results because management wants results, but the essence of a high-quality organisation is people producing results because they want the results. It's puzzling we find that hard to understand, that if people are really enjoying, they'll innovate, they'll take risks, they'll have trust with one another because they are really committed to what they're doing and it's fun