Top Standards Quotes

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the C...

I realized that my father, of all these men, was the most obstinate, helplessly bonded to his better instincts and their excessive demands. I only then understood that he had quit his job not merely b...

What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Ladies, don't lower yourself to fight over a man or compete with other women for one. It's not classy, immature, and a waste of time. Instead, use that energy and time wisely by achieving goals and be...

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.

It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

If you do not work on self- improvement or do not develop strength of character, you will be inclined to succumb to the opinions of the people surrounding you or to the standards criminally imposed on...

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ("Behind the frosted glass")

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to...

In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

I cannot say enough of appreciation for your determination to live by the standards of the Church, to walk with the strength of virtue, to keep your minds above the slough of filth which seems to be m...

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards.