Quotes About Standards

Only a mediocre man is always at his best

You don't become a Christian by acting like one. You are not on a performance basis with God. He doesn't say, "Here are My standards, now you measure up." He knows you can't solve the problem of an old sinful self by simply improving your behavior. He must change your nature, give you an entirely new self—the life of Christ in you—which is the grace you need to measure up to His standards.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today... (Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Sabe o que é que o homem mais repara na mulher? Se é limpa. Homem não perdoa a mulher suja! aurora

I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough, I have a reputation of also being the girl next door, kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is, it's me on that screen and I don't have control over everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. Ruth Swain in "History of the Rain

You can't be beautiful and a writer, because to be a writer you have to be the one doing the looking; if you're beautiful people will be looking at you.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.

A reasonable looking guy with a sense of humour to go to parties with: surely that´s not too much to ask, is it?

It's not always easy to keep going when faced with indifference or to watch values being defined by a mass infatuation with mediocrity.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Do not accept second best.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

False elegance is preferable to genuine vulgarity. The man who dwells in an imaginary palace demands more from himself than the man who is happy with his hovel.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its proposals into standards, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

When one is confronted by diverse "cultures," there are two symmetrically erroneous attitudes: to admit only one cultural standard, and to grant all standards the same rank. Neither the overweening imperialism of the European historian of yesterday, nor the shameful relativism of the European historian of today.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

Chi racchiude in sè del talento deve aver l'anima più pura di ogni altro. A un altro molto si perdona, ma a lui non si perdonerà. A chi è uscito di casa con un chiaro abito festivo basta una sola macchia di fango schizzata da una ruota perché tutta la gente lo circondi e lo segni a dito e parli della sua sporcizia, mentre la stessa gente non nota le molte macchie sui molti passanti vestiti di abiti quotidiani. Perché sugli abiti di tutti i giorni non si notano le macchie.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast between the standards of the past and the standards of the present. Some fulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.