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The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly. -- Benjamin Franklin
That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body. -- Benjamin Franklin
Quantity has a quality all its own. -- Joseph Stalin
Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need. -- James Altucher
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed. -- Ray Bradbury
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity. -- Emile Zola
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity. -- Alice James
[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories. -- Johannes Kepler
Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself. -- Julian Huxley
An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience. -- Ray Bradbury
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others. -- Benjamin Franklin
Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality. -- John Buchan
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. -- Samuel Richardson
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
You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 30 seconds as you can in three hours. -- William Hurt
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
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion. -- David Hume
The aim was to regulate the value of money by increasing or diminishing the quantity of it. The effects of these measures appeared to provide an inductive proof of the correctness of this superficial version of the Quantity Theory, and incidentally concealed the weaknesses of its logic. -- Ludwig von Mises
Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin. -- Tama J. Kieves
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
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. -- Benjamin Franklin
Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. -- Steve Jobs
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. -- Jules Renard
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. -- George Boole
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. -- Horace Mann
Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. -- Mark Twain
It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. -- George MacDonald
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality. -- Alexis Carrel
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry or fear. Go as fast as you can , but never hurry. -- Wallace D. Wattles
It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration. -- Antoine Lavoisier
James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver. -- Terry Hoeppner
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
One of the most important axioms is, that as the quantity of any commodity, for instance, plain food, which a man has to consume, increases, so the utility or benefit derived from the last portion used decreases in degree. The decrease in enjoyment between the beginning and the end of a meal may be taken as an example. -- William Stanley Jevons
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be wasted and to pollute the water supply, nor depended on such quantities of commercial fertilizer. The genius of American farm experts is very well demonstrated here: they can take a solution and divide it neatly into two problems. -- Wendell Berry
It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a thing is good or bad, noxious or beneficial, but of what kind it is? And how much is there of it? Quality and Quantity were then first recognised as the primary features to be observed in scientific inquiry. -- James Clerk Maxwell
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time. -- Steve Schirripa
I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family. -- Reba McEntire
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. -- William Ellery Channing
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. -- Milan Kundera
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. -- B. F. Skinner
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
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. -- Tom Waits
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. -- Michel Houellebecq
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them. -- Christopher Columbus
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
I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers. -- James Patterson
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. -- David Ricardo
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems. -- Atul Gawande
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
I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected. -- Louis Sullivan
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That's when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That's what 'Time Is Love' is all about. -- Josh Turner
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
It's quantity, not quality. -- Dean Ween
Number is different from quantity. -- Gregory Bateson
Quality, not quantity, is my measure. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Love is a quality, not a quantity. -- Vanna Bonta
In great quantity, madame. In great quantity. -- Curnonsky
Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master. -- Sax Rohmer
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality. -- Malorie Blackman
It is quality rather than quantity that matters. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness. -- Pablo Picasso
Sometimes quantity has a quality all its own. -- Vladimir Lenin
We measure genius by quality, not by quantity. -- Wendell Phillips
Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue. -- Plato
The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
I eat the same foods but half the quantity. -- Myleene Klass
Evidently, quality of wits is more important than quantity. -- Claudius
As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality. -- Joel Miller
The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity. -- Alfred Binet
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity. -- Alan Lightman
When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity. -- Adrian Rogers
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. -- Seneca the Younger
To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality. -- Mark Frauenfelder
What I value in life is quality rather then quantity. -- Albert Einstein
The lure of quantity is the most dangerous of all. -- Simone Weil
It is the quality of lending over the quantity of lending. -- Lewis Thompson Preston
Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it. -- Suzan-Lori Parks
Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me. -- Anna Kavan
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. -- Victor Hugo
Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity. -- Jean-Claude Carriere
Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made. -- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity. -- Buck Brannaman
Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity. -- Marshall McLuhan
The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly. -- John Burroughs
Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature. -- Lisa Kleypas
Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression. -- Milton Friedman
Inflationism is that monetary policy that seeks to increase the quantity of money. -- Ludwig von Mises
I always feel that it is quality of time not quantity of time. -- Alberto Del Rio
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris. -- V. S. Naipaul
A society that produces suicide murderers in quantity is essentially committing its own suicide. -- Haim Harari
No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever. -- Gordon Moore
Snowfall is expected to considerably exceed the normal range, both in frequency and quantity. -- Mark Oliver
Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember -- Alexandra Adornetto
Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and quantity of practice time. -- Michael Griffin
The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity. -- Hugh Shelton
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. -- Gregory Bateson
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A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ. -- Lee Strobel
We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow. -- Alan Chadwick
Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole. -- Meriwether Lewis
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. -- Seneca the Younger
You don't have to do a lot of quantity. It's the quality that counts. -- Bruno Zheng Wu
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. -- George Santayana
Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. -- Keir Hardie
Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering. -- Isaac Asimov
The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time. -- Michael Griffin
I have come to realize it's not the QUANTITY of LOVE but instead the QUALITY -- Shannon Elizabeth
Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things. -- Karl Marx
Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity." -- Milan Kundera
My wealth is measured not in money but in photographs, not in quantity but creativity. -- Destin Sparks
Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest. -- Brian Tracy
Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside. -- Aristotle

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