Quality Loss Quotes

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems from the basic nature of a production system that shuns reality. The commodity form reduces everything to quantitative equivalence. The quantitative is what it develops, and it can develop only within the quantitative.

When a restaurant is too popular, it starts to harm the reason you are there.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

More always means worse.

oh how television diminishes everything.

Everything in television is dumbing down even further and it won't stop until somebody dies.

A player's mentality is very important. The five or 10 per cent where they're not focused because of wanting to go somewhere is enough for them to haul off their quality. It impacts on everything. So, as a board and manager, you have to make a decision.

By planting more, we find new hybrid of cocoa, and by doing that, we lose some quality. So the price of the very high-end chocolates rises even more.

We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.