“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.”

“You always succeed in producing a result.”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

“Jeez, for a superior intelligence, you must be just plain dumb,' he said.”

Tom Holt book Paint Your Dragon

“Each day, most of the 4 billion chicken brains do what modern man's brain can't. They make eggs and chickens. Is the chicken more intelligent than man? Probably not. Therefore, something far superior to man must have made the chicken. 'Accident' is the alternative.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

“Beauty is always the result of an accident. Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“The quality and spirit of our own society must justify and support our efforts abroad.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”

Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist

“Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.”

Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) American journalist

“A great democratic commonwealth should seek to produce and reward that individual distinction which results in the efficient performance of needed work, for such performance is of high value to the whole community. But hand in hand with this purpose must go the purpose which Abraham Lincoln designated as the “amelioration of mankind.” Only by an intelligent effort to realize this joint process of individual and social betterment can we keep our democracy sound.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …