Eric Ries Quotes

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Love
  • Strong

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Values

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• 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

• When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Quality

• I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Think
  • Quality
  • Wonderful

• I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • America
  • Passion
  • Best

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

• I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Quality

• If we truly value humanity, life, and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life
  • Value
  • Quality

• I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• It's a simple quality of human nature that people prefer to choose to do things rather than be ordered to do them. In fact, as soon as you tell me I have to do something - give a speech, attend a banquet, go to Cannes - I immediately start looking for ways to avoid doing it.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • People
  • Nature
  • Simple

• Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great
  • Music
  • Important

• The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Real
  • Success
  • Quality

• The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

  

  Fred Upton
  • Health
  • Quality

• TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Science
  • Education
  • Serious

• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

  Fleur East
  • Running
  • Body
  • Yoga

• I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Football

• I do not think that Caitlyn Jenner's transition was easy. Coming out and transitioning as a public figure - even for someone like her - is an extraordinarily difficult task to undertake. I might not agree with her on a couple of points, but I will refuse to say that her transition was easy.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Couple

• My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Father
  • Wife

• If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Quality
  • Customer