"Q is for Quantity?" you ask. It sure is because Quantity leads to Quality. What does that mean? Why, "Practice makes perfect," of course.
Five years ago when I began my digital photography journey, fearing that I wouldn't get a good shot of a subject, I would take between 5 and 20 pictures of it. At the time I was shooting daffodils, so you can imagine what the inventory looked like. Are there twenty different angles from which to shoot a daffodil? I bet not. This was my shot-gun phase and boy did I ever pepper my subjects liberally trying to ensure that I would get at least one good shot.
Nikon D60: 1/500 second at f/5.6 ISO 100, -⅓ EV, 200mm
The luxury of digital photography is that there is no cost to shooting a lot of pictures but I will say, these days, I think a lot more before I shoot. I evaluate the light and maybe even the wind; I consider possible angles; I create various compositions; I think about what I want the image to look like and decide how best to get those results. I've been told by a number of followers in the past year that my images have improved markedly since the start, so if we believe what they say to be true ... quantity does indeed lead to quality.
Nikon D7000: 1/5 second at f/45 Iso 100, 90mm Macro
Here are a few words of wisdom from two masters to ponder:
"Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." - Ansel Adams