#quantity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #quantity




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

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

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.


Milan Kundera


#culture #madness #perishing #quantity #words

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.


Nassau William Senior


#denotes #exchange #existing #given #objects

Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.


Christoph Waltz


#does #especially #get #i #long

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human mind, or you can believe we just don't understand what quality in a mind is yet, even though we might someday. Either of those opinions allows one to distinguish quantity and quality. In order to confuse quantity and quality, you have to reject both possibilities. The mere possibility of there being something ineffable about personhood is what drives many technologists to reject the notion of quality. They want to live in an airtight reality that resembles an idealized computer program, in which everything is understood and there are no fundamental mysteries. They recoil from even the hint of a potential zone of mystery or an unresolved seam in one's worldview. This desire for absolute order usually leads to tears in human affairs, so there is a historical reason to distrust it. Materialist extremists have long seemed determined to win a race with religious fanatics: Who can do the most damage to the most people?


Jaron Lanier


#personhood #quality #quantity #religion #religion

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.


Julian Assange


#any #caliber #disclosures #enormous #enough

I consider it top priority to improve water quality and increase water quantity in my community.


Joe Baca


#consider #i #improve #increase #priority

To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.


Irving Babbitt


#another way #concerned #continue #democracy #expansive