Quotes About Standard

Rockefeller paid the market price, roughly equivalent to what he paid his Standard colleagues for their stock that month.

To preserve their autonomy, they sequestered half their voting stock in the hands of five men eternally sworn to keep it free of Standard influence.

What to them is known as practical thought or thinking consists in following the example of some authority whose ideas are accepted as a standard in the construction of some object. Anyone who thinks differently is considered impractical because this thought does not coincide with traditional ideas.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

By examining what's normal, we begin to recognize and identify what's abnormal.

I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, and I'm a difference maker. I'm going to set a new standard for my family. We're going into our Promised Land.

I'm a son. I'm blessed, I'm prosperous, and I'm a difference maker. I'm going to set a new standard for my family.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

I live a normal life.

There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don't mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.

Instantly identifiable, he was not only a human flag or standard to be followed and protected at all costs, but also a key enemy target.

As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.