Quotes About Standards

The hiring rules are strictly followed, no matter who the applicant. Not long after she graduated from Harvard, Molly Munger applied at Munger, Tolles for an associate's position. She interviewed with Carla Hills, but Hills did not offer her a job, allegedly because Molly had not made the Harvard Law Review. Apparently in Hills estimation, that meant Molly's credentials weren't quite up to Munger, Tolles's standards.4

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

You are what you settle for.

In some cases, blacks may have quickly caught up with the mainstream, but all too often they did not. What might have been intended as a temporary relaxation of standards hardened into permanent racial preferences. The gap in black/white achievement refused to go away, and what came to look more and more like reverse racial discrimination had to be justified by claiming that the persistent racial gap in achievement could be due only to persistent white racism.

It must be something of a shock for university students to learn one of the great, unwritten rules of race relations in America today: Affirmative action has lowered employment and admissions standards for nonwhites all across America, but everyone must pretend not to have noticed. After they graduate, students discover that affirmative action is not limited to employment and student admissions.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

A girl is supposed to be able to admire her dad and compare all other guys to him. This helps to weed out troublesome guys because the daughter will know how she ought to be treated.

When you hold fast to your morals while dating, you'll also notice the relationships often end of a different note. If a guy is in agreement with your standards but things end up working out between you, the end doesn't taste as bitter. It's easier to let go. Stick to your standards, because if a woman needs to lower her morals in order to find love, then it is not love that she has found.

In time, I was able to learn that as long as I could respect and love myself, I wouldn't settle for less from others.

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

Do we look at Harvard or Oxford and say, "If they'd only expand and branch out and hire thousands more professors and go global and open other campuses all over the world … then they'd be great schools." Of course not. That's not how we measure the value of these institutions. So why is it the way we measure businesses?

Step 5: Problem-Solving • Invent options that meet each side's most important concerns and interests. • Look to standards for what should happen. Keep in mind the standard of mutual caretaking; relationships that always go one way rarely last. • Talk about how to keep communication open as you go forward.

Generally the best way to manage conflict in a way that safeguards a relationship is to look for standards or fair principles to guide a resolution, rather than trying to haggle with or intimidate the other person.

Not all standards are equally persuasive, of course. Some will seem more directly on point, more widely accepted, or more immediately relevant in terms of time, place, or circumstance.

the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments, both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span:

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

Moreover, Ray prided himself upon that confusion of standards which is called broad-mindedness.

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Your coat's a little shabby—but who cares? It doesn't keep people from asking you to dine. If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like: they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop—and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership.

What was left of the little world he had grown up in, and whose standards had bent and bound him?

the same quality of making other standards non-existent by ignoring them. This attribute was common to most of Lily's set: they had a force of negation which eliminated everything beyond their own range of perception.

If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself. The clothes are the background, the frame, if you like; they don't make success, but they are a part of it. Who wants a dingy woman? We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed till we drop—and if we can't keep it up alone, we have to go into partnership.