Standards Quotes - Page 33

• Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

  Brian May

  Kings, Mean, Boys

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• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

  "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

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• Boys are more likely to develop a masculine personality and acquire strong moral standards when they have a loving and nurturant rather than a threatening or fear-inspiring father.

  James Q. Wilson

  Family, Strong, Father

  James Q. Wilson (1997). “The Moral Sense”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Honesty, Corporations, Harvest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2317, Library of Alexandria

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• The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

  John F. Kennedy

  Ethical Standards, Government, Political

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.326, Best Books on

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• Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."

  Alvin Toffler

  Jobs, Play, People

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• [The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations.

  Horace Rowan Gaither

  America, Historical, Tasks

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Police, Historical

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• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

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• Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual.

  Plato

  Wise, Agreement, Numbers

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Long

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• Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

  Naomi Wolf

  Gold, Male Dominance, Currency

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• [An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!

  Woody Allen

  Television Watching, Cells, Years

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• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Ken Livingstone

  Exercise, Ethical Standards, Office

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2000.

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• I am kind of prudish and I have very strict standards about how I present myself. But one of the things that I've always stood by is that women are beautiful and sexy. We shouldn't be afraid of that. [But] we need to make sure that we present that beauty and that sexiness in a way that says we are in control of our bodies. We're strong, we're classy, we're beautiful, powerful beings to be reckoned with, not victims.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Beautiful, Sexy, Strong

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• When I do photo shoots for men's magazines, I don't do lingerie, I don't do skimpy bikinis because I feel like, for young women, setting the standard of you can be sexy as hell, but you don't have to have your ass hanging out. Just me personally, I just don't feel that its necessary to project sexy. I feel like I can project that from the inside out. I can wear something a little sexy, but I don't need to take it to that next level.

  Meagan Good

  Sexy, Men, Needs

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• Banks and other providers of credit to households have been competing vigorously to expand or protect their market share. In the process, lending standards have been progressively eroded so that lenders are now engaging in practices that would have been regarded as out of the question five or ten years ago.

  Ian Macfarlane

  Years, Practice, Competition

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• Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the presence of towering mountains or sweeping plains without getting a little of the high moral standard of Nature infused into his being ... with eyes opened, the great story of the Earth's forming, the history of a tree, the life of a flower or the activities of some small animal will all unfold themselves to the recreationist.

  Arthur Carhart

  Flower, Eye, Animal

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• The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.

  Mark Rosenker

  Years, Training, Needs

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• We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of living is going down today. It's going down and the middle class is hurting because of the monetary policy. When you destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Hurt, Money

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• Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

  Jahmene Douglas

  Hurt, Kindness, Caring

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• I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Comfort And Joy, People, Ordinary

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• In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.

  Daniel Gilbert

  White, Perfection, Albums

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.65, Vintage

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• What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Art, Mean, Pride

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language. The discipline to do this is learned in your early years. Establish now the daily practice of reading the scriptures ten to fifteen minutes each day. If you do so, by the time you reach the mission field, you will have read all four of the standard works. I urge you to read particularly the Book of Mormon so that you can testify of its truthfulness as the Lord has directed.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Reading, Years

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