Quotes About Standards

Unfortunately the epistemological standards of common sense—we should credit the people and ideas that make correct predictions, and discount the ones that don't—are rarely applied to the intelligentsia and commentariat, who dispense opinions free of accountability.

the same time, the mental health professions, and perhaps the culture at large, has been lowering the bar for what counts as a mental illness.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

You can show your daughter by the way you love and honor your wife that she should never settle for less.

Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.

If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base.

We deserve leaders who stand for principal, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

I don't have a boyfriend right now. I'm looking for anyone with a job that I don't have to support.

Society teaches us conditional love; i.e., "I love you if you are the way I want you to be."

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talent is not sexually transmittable.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.

And the story suggests something more: unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us—in this case, an artificial animal that brings out our own animal instincts in a completely unregulated way. The old Hebrew story makes it clear how the ancients felt about our prospects for civilized behaviour in the absence of rules that seek to elevate our gaze and raise our standards.

unchaperoned, and left to our own untutored judgment, we are quick to aim low and worship qualities that are beneath us

You can use your own standards of judgment. You can rely on yourself for guidance. You don't have to adhere to some external, arbitrary code of behaviour (although you should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don't have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you).

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

La mediocridad está en no dar escándalo ni servir de ejemplo.

por eso la mediocridad es moralmente peligrosa y su conjunto es nocivo en ciertos momentos de la historia: cuando reina el clima de la mediocridad.

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.

a touring burlesque show was still advertising for chorus girls, and specifying that no girl under 150 pounds need apply.