Quotes About Standards

If we are consistent in guiding our children in the right direction, and extend grace to them to be immature on the way to maturity then we will have the best chance of maintaining both our standards and a close relationship with our children.

We should never expect the world to behave according to our morality, our standards of holiness, or our wisdom. Jesus would still call us to "owe them our love" to fulfill the law.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations. You don't have to do this verbally. You can also judge another person in your hand, comparing his or her behavior to what you would do, usually in a way that shows you to be superior.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations.

No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

The single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Recognizing that backsliding is natural, he committed himself to repeated practice. Recognizing that some virtues, such as humility and order, were particularly hard for him to achieve, he decided to lower his standards and cut himself some slack. The result was a program that was explicit, realistic, and, as he looked back on it, seemingly effective.

For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.

In October 2015 Emily Temple-Wood, one of the site's long-standing editors, told the Atlantic magazine that she had identified almost 4400 female scientists who met Wikipedia's inclusion standards but did not have a page. For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to be remembered? No man is held to such a standard.

I don't know how a woman can have such a poor view of herself as to show off poor stitching.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.