Standards Quotes - Page 9

• It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

  Thomas Sowell

  Thinking, People, Favors

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• The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

  Ruth Benedict

  Community, Patterns, Firsts

  Patterns of Culture ch. 1 (1934)

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• Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

  Richard Sennett

  Technique, Impossible

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• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?  In the faith of the New Testament it is central.  The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Missing, Way

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• Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Lying, Statistics, Measurement

  "Infections and Inequalities". Book by Paul Farmer, p. 1, 1999.

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• I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to.

  Matthew Freud

  Mean, Media, News

  "Fox hunt: cracks in Murdoch dynasty as TV news chief finds himself in firing line" by Andrew Clark and James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable

  Barbara Mikulski

  Military, Rights, America

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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  Ed Markey

  New York, Moving, Fire

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• Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Standards Of Beauty, Ultimate

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• Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Biblical, Tolerance

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• I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

  Justin Guarini

  Fun, Voice, Piano

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• We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.

  Jon Meacham

  Interesting, Trying, Males

  "Official Statement on NEWSWEEK's Sarah Palin Cover". www.newsweek.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

  Ludwig von Mises

  Years, Gold, Quota

  Ludwig Von Mises (2008). “Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses”

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• The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Independent, Ambition

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.585, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less. [I]f the overriding objective is price stability, we did better with the nineteenth-century gold standard and passive central banks, with currency boards, or even with 'free banking.' The truly unique power of a central bank, after all, is the power to create money, and ultimately the power to create is the power to destroy.

  Paul Volcker

  Unique, Gold, Boards

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  Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Self Esteem, Achievement, Black

  Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

  Sandy Berger

  Powerful, School, Quality

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• Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Goal, Selfishness

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• Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

  Gary Ackerman

  Pride, People, Sometimes

  "WABC Special - Interview With Congressman Gary Ackerman". "The John Batchelor and Paul Alexander Show", www.jonathanpollard.org. July 29, 2001.

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• The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

  Paul Volcker

  Average, Decline, Standards Of Living

  "Volcker Asserts U.S. Must Trim Living Standard". www.nytimes.com. October 18, 1979.

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• Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

  Bill Hayden

  Linux, Available

  "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

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• I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

  James Lovelock

  Religious, Way, Feels

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Nfl, Champion

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, High Standards

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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