Ordinary time is "quality time" too. Everyday activities are not just necessities that keep you from serious child rearing: they a...re the best opportunities for learning you can give your child...because her chief task in her first three years is precisely to gain command of the day-to-day life you take for granted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have three kinds of "quality time." The first I call "Split-Brain Time" because only one side of my brain is with my children.......The second type of quality time is what I call "Timed Time" and is best characterized by declarations such as, "okay, you children have ten minutes to get in bed and fall asleep...." On the really bad days I settle for the "Quality Greeting"Ma brief "Hi there! or "Sleep tight"Musually uttered from a comfortable chair just before I drift off to sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anybody who knows the difference between the kind of conversation you have walking in the woods and the kind of conversation you h...ave between the segments of a show on Nickelodeon can tell you that quality time exists. Quality time is when you and your child are together and keenly aware of each other. You are enjoying the same thing at the same time, even if it is just being in a room or going for a drive in the car. You are somehow in tune, even while daring to be silent together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Working parents are often told that it is the quality of time, rather than the quantity of time one spends with children, that is ...significant. Unfortunately, good quality time is difficult to define, to measure, and to make happen on schedule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.... He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, Not, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practice As full of labor as a wise man's art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For 'truth' itself is a...n abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical construction, which cannot get past the eye even of a grammarian. We approach it cap and categories in hand: we ask ourselves whether Truth is a substance ... or a quality ... or a relation.... But philosophers should take something more nearly their own size to strain at. What needs discussing rather is the use, or certain uses, of the word 'true.' In vino, possibly, 'veritas,' but in a sober symposium 'verum.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learn...ed to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or th...e quality of his despair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of vagrants. There was a ...time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you'd pick, men who could talk, men who'd read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with. Well, it's been that way all through history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Ernest Hemingway died by his own hand, he was in deep depression and had written little of value for a long time. Scott Fitzg...erald, when he died, regarded by the world as a failure, was fighting his drink problem successfully, and was doggedly in the middle of The Last Tycoon, whose quality clearly confirms that his genius was intact. Who was the failure, who the hero? A writer is not an athlete, not a civic leader, not a politician; his personality may be flawed and his life a ruin, but the one fight that defines him is the fight to stay with his work, and not to betray it. On those terms, "poor Scott" was battling in the arena to the end, and his pathos is not the pathos of failure, but the pathos of greatness; and that greatness grows year by year.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »