Alton Tobey Quotes

Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer...

Alton Tobey

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• The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • You
  • Quality

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.

  

  Yoenis Cespedes
  • Play
  • Quality
  • Pitching

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Quality
  • Expectations

• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • High
  • Quality
  • Present

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• In Utah, one word sums up our business prowess: investment. Simply put, we know we can't have long-term economic growth and maintain Utah's enviable quality of life without making some critical investments.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Quality

• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Long
  • Quality
  • Better

• 'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Portrait
  • Our
  • Grey

• There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • True
  • Quality

• Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Enemy

• Instead of the traditional emphasis on the sanctity of life, bioethics began to stress the quality of life, meaning that many damaged humans, young and old, don't qualify for personhood because their lives have lost value.

  

  John Leo
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Value

• Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Learning

• I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Up
  • Trying

• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • World
  • Best
  • Building

• I'm very proud of my dyslexia. I wouldn't have it any other way. It sits absolutely with what I do, how I think, and who I am.

  

  James William Middleton
  • Proud

• Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer...

  

  Alton Tobey
  • Quality
  • Catch
  • Portrait