Quotes About Standards

I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in many ways, represents the conscience of society in terms of engaging standards that we need to live by.

A woman needs to be put together more than a man. If she isn't, she looks like she's not up for the job. There's a different standard. Those are the rules, and I have to live by them.

Being at a very high quality level was the only way for us to survive.

The standard of music has come down. There is only screaming and shouting in songs today and I don't want to sing such songs.

No one today knows what is indecent.

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

I don't like to see men's toes - especially if they aren't groomed.

You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.

For me, the test of a good office is how clean its toilets are.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

We have a lot of bad leaders around the world that operate in ways we would never tolerate in the United States.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

young people no longer "believe in the old standards and authorities, and they're not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of morals and conduct in place of the sanctions that have been destroyed for them.

The standards of judgement must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

Since representatives of formal agencies judge leadership according to their own criteria, evaluate what is good or bad in the community according to their own standards, and understand life in the community only when interpreted according to their own code or standards-it is crystal clear that they don't know the meaning of indigenous leadership, let alone the identities of these natural leaders...

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Innovations often need to be explained in terms of the status quo, which is why automobiles are rated in horsepower and electric lights in

You see a similar downward spiral at schools that try to measure teacher performance. They create new student tests for evaluating teachers that reduce time teachers have to teach real lessons, which lowers their scores, which, sad surprise, leads to more testing.

The fact that we are still sitting on and depending on technical protocols nearly a half century old is a testament to the genius of those who invented everything from such inventions, protocols and standards like Ethernet to personal computers that were more than just circuit boards for geeks, but actually had small GUI interfaces, as well as connected devices such as a mouse and keyboard.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.