#quantity

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces. ↗

— Christian Siriano

#be careful #careful #choose #economy #especially

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#compositions #finds #go #hundreds #quality

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#quality #quantity #technology #web #science

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#frauds #go #intellectual #meet #paris

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 #great discovery #literary #literary men #literature

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

#ask #commitment #create #culture #emphasize

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. ↗

— William Allen White

#common man #generally #grafted #greatness #man

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#determine #energy #focus #force #hours

It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#comes #dealing #difficult #get #give

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. ↗

— Horace Mann

#best #conduct #education #enjoyment #infinite