Quotes About Standards

The French writer Edmond About, who visited Greece in 1832, a dozen years after its independence, reports how peasants struggled with the metric system as it was completely unnatural to them and stuck to Ottoman standards instead.

whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Once we see that living up to our standards appears to be leading us toward self-destruction, the time has come to question our standards rather than simply resigning ourselves to living without integrity.

She was deemed an unfit mother, in spite of the fact that she goes to the gym every day,' Hal once told me. . . .Beautiful people are often forgiven for many things--and maybe she's gotten through life that way, but I don't forgive her for anything--and I don't even know what awful things she's done other than showing a lack of parental fitness.

If the bar can't be lowered," Goddard said slowly, "then the floor must be raised.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

The only time a man needed a lot of women was when none of them were any good.

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

It was a sickness: this great interest in a medium that relentlessly and consistently failed, time after time after time, to produce anything at all. People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

America had been taught that beauty only resided in youth, especially in the female.

but it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible shits, the most obvious fakes.

There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face.

Going bearded seemed one less thing to have to fail at.

When Luce did look in the mirror, she thought she might still be sort of pretty, if you went by what most people thought was pretty. And if that's the way you went, you had your own problems. It wasn't like being pretty was an accomplishment, and it would go away in time. So it would be a mistake to get too hung up on it.

You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

So let's summarize: (1) these schools are being recognized as "excellent" for having students with high test scores; (2) to get into such a school, one must have high test scores. This is the logical equivalent of giving an award to the basketball team for doing such an excellent job of producing tall students.

Sunt, dupa standartele omenirii, in toate mintile. E adevarat ca am ceva manii, dar nu frizeaza nebunia.

it is we who degrade ourselves by allowing our standards to be debased without a struggle.