Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

44 Days of Leadership

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

Rumors

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.

Stumbling on Happiness

I will hold my self to a standard of grace which is Christ's gift, not perfection which is Satan's trap.

Manners That Matter for Moms

Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.

Orthodoxy

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.

Pensées

I will no longer be judged by the standards of others. I will judge myself. I will not live by someone else's rules. I will make my own.

Tarnish

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.

Bob Beauprez

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

Simon Newcomb

Rising living standards - whether in a village, a region, a nation, or the world - depend first on specialization: on letting people concentrate on what they do best and trade with others who specialize in other things.

Virginia Postrel

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Down and Out in Paris and London

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.

The Art of War

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

Juliette Gordon Low

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Peter Asher

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

Richard Dawkins

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

Raul Grijalva

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

Sam Harris

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Serge Lang