Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
There are various non-statistical tools that have been typically developed by lean companies, notably by Toyota for minimizing variability in production, such… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. — Bill James Copy Share Image
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. — Frederick E. Crane Copy Share Image
Latin, as we all know, ultimately broke down into Spanish, Italian, French, and so on. One wonders whether there will be an… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling… — Harvey Cushing Copy Share Image
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image