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• Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

  Berry Gordy

  Change, Long, Judging

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• Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

  David Maister

  Believe, Excellence, Compromise

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• Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

  Achim Steiner

  Powerful, Book, Humanity

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• Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Wings, Broken, Size

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• Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

  Robert McCracken

  Real, Character, Men

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• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• Different parents have different standards for their children.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Children, Parent, Different

  "Interview with Penelope Spheeris" by Pablo Kjolseth, www.moviehabit.com. January 31, 2001.

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• Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Agency, Discipline, Community

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

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• One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Weakness, Libertarian, Theory

  "Skepticism and Freedom". Book by Richard Epstein, 2003.

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

  P. D. Ouspensky (1988). “Talks With a Devil”, p.211, Library of Alexandria

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

  Hideo Kojima

  Nice, Movement, World

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Light, World

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• Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

  Marion G. Romney

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Men

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• The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Psychology, Levels, Come Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

  Roger Goodell

  Football, Nfl, Privilege

  "Aaron Hernandez: Arrest Warrant Issued For Patriots' Tight End In Connection To Murder Investigation", www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2013.

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• The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

  Henry Fairfield Osborn

  Beauty, Truth, Learning

  Henry Fairfield Osborn (1900). “Collected papers”

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• Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

  Krista Tippett

  Work, Compassion, Vocabulary

  "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.

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• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

  William Thorsell

  Time, Stress, Pay

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