Standards Quotes

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Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad? — Frank Gehry
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or… — Guido van Rossum
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards… — Miroslav Volf
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all… — Thomas Sowell
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those… — James Rickards
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who… — Criss Jami
It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render… — Criss Jami
America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have… — Bill O'Reilly
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard… — William Hazlitt
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of… — Karl Marx
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams
Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that… — John Selden
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a… — Ronald Reagan
There still remains one effort of magnanimity, one sacrifice of prejudice and passion, to be made by the individuals throughout the nation who have heretofore… — John Quincy Adams
Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and… — Ernest Hemingway
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies… — John W. Gardner
Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it… — Jane Goodall
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. — Charles Goodyear

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