Quotes About Standards

Those who can't teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

Some women are bred from the beginning to be perfect specimens for men

The evolutionary algorithms that mimic biological evolution are powerful tools, but they're still missing something. They are still deficient in the recombination department so central to biological innovations.31 Nature is better at recombination, much better, for one simple reason: standards.

El artista no tiene ningún derecho moral para dejarse llevar a un abstracto nivel medio, para hacer que su obra sea más comprensible, más accesible. Esto no acarrearía otra cosa que la decadencia del arte, cuando en realidad esperamos su florecimiento, creemos en las posibilidades potenciales y aún no desarrolladas del artista y también en una elevación de las exigencias del público. O al menos queremos creer en todo ello.

One broken window—a badly designed piece of code, a poor management decision that the team must live with for the duration of the project—is all it takes to start the decline. If you find yourself working on a project with quite a few broken windows, it's all too easy to slip into the mindset of All the rest of this code is crap, I'll just follow suit.

I am the most forgiving of men… but standards must be maintained!

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Na?in na koji se kretao, njegov miris, na?in odevanja, sve su to postali kriterijumi na osnovu kojih ?e odsada pa zauvek procenjivati muškarce.

When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.

I did not take enough care with my hair, but a permanent wave would fix that. I was not thin enough, but for that, alas, there was no quick fix. I should never put more than the equivalent of three peas on my fork at a time, or one small disk of carrot. I should always leave two thirds of my meal on my plate, and was never to eat in public.

Once, I did a halfhearted job of sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor, and that's the first place she checked because she knew I'd do a lousy job because "that's the kind of kid you are." As in I'm not a "go-getter who makes her own luck" like she is, so I'm "never going to get anywhere in this world." She knew all that because of two missed Cheerios and a small dust bunny.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

People are not uniform Emaline. There is no such thing as any other girl. So stop holding yourself to some ridiculous high standard, would you please?

Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference.

Quality is not an independent force in the universe; it depends on what you choose as your frame of reference. When

Never use naughtiness in mixed company, unless your witticism is so funny that your audience will shoot tears of happiness out of their eyes with a velocity sufficient to powerwash a small bus. Any joke that falls short of that standard will make you lose respect in the eyes of everyone except your best friends, who, as you know, lost respect for you long ago.