Qualities Quotations | Page 4

We're very pleased to have him in our district. He is very excited to hear the news and looks forward to working with us. We have had the opportunity to work with Mr. Nelson before and we know his qualities will work well with our students and our district.

We felt that Robert had to have qualities that Jeffrey and Elaine hadn't encountered before. Not just his good looks, but his talent and his intensity. And because Robert is grieving, he's extremely vulnerable, and that draws Jeffrey and Elaine in as well.

It says a lot about Claudio that he's here, he's on the field and he's getting to know people. He brings great qualities in that regard. We need that for sure.

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

This team is the best Terrier team I've seen in the last four or five years. Specifically, they're quicker and more creative. They haven't had those qualities over the last four or five years. They have them now, and they used them tonight.

The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

There's a point at which as president you can't game out everything. You've got to go to the core of your own way of doing things. This is a nominee, I would guess, in whom he has confidence and senses in his own mind that she has got the qualities for the job.

They really adore each other offstage and have a very similar sense of humor. These are qualities they bring onstage, and that makes for a very real relationship.

However, one of my best qualities is being able to organize my priorities and then, when it is time to shift gears, I can do it.

He's made up of good things. His personality, his positive attitude, his willingness to pitch in: he's got qualities that are good.

He's more impressive when you sit down and speak to him in person. That's one of the good qualities about him. He means what he says and he says what he means.

He's got a lot of qualities you need to become a great player. But it isn't good enough just to be great on the offensive end. You've got to be good on the defensive end as well.

If I want this particular guy, I'm going to go get him. If Brad Childress is a guy who demonstrates these qualities (inspiring players and attention to detail), I don't even wait. ... And don't pick off the pile. I'm not a big believer in settling.

I can't think of anybody who would be better suited than someone with the qualities Duane has exhibited.

I can only vouch for her character, her personal qualities of compassion and thoughtfulness and intellect, ... My sense is her legal career makes it plain that she would see herself as a judge and not a legislator on the bench, which I personally think is appropriate and important.

I do not object to retouching, dodging. or accentuation as long as they do not interfere with the natural qualities of photographic technique.

For the guys that'll be here next year, which it basically the entire team, I see qualities that each one developed. Whether it be competitiveness ... or the confidence to know that they are one of the top four teams in the Big East.

He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.

He possessed many qualities that I wish I had.

He brings experience, leadership and special intangible qualities that we're hopeful of guiding our offense in the end zone.

Being a "good" mother does not call for the same qualities as being a "good" housewife. . . . a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

[W]hat I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Of course, man is also a weak creature with many bad qualities. And it depends on which of his qualities will in a certain social situation and in a certain climate prevail, which qualities will awaken. The totalitarian system was masterful in how it managed to mobilize all the bad qualities.

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd

There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities - a sense of humor and a sense of proportion

We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.

Contentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite; to awaken instantly although one may be in a deep slumber; unflinching devotion to the master; and bravery; these six qualities should be learned from the dog.

Don't value a man for the Quality he is of, but for the Qualities he possesses.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

A man is never so ridiculous by those Qualities that are his own as by those that he affects to have

The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities; consequently, her presence and her ways are unembarrassing,

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad

I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

I chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

Nothing endures but personal qualities.