Standards Quotes

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hypocrite, Media, Politics

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.77, Seven Stories Press

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• Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

  Kim Dotcom

  Inspirational, Jobs, School

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• The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

  William Hague

  Discipline, Common Sense, High Standards

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Trying, Live By

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2009.

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• Comparisons are odious.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Guidance, Comparison

  Miguel de Cervantes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Action, Logical

  Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”

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• When anything goes, everything goes.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Anything Goes

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• It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things.

  Jim Jarmusch

  New York, Interesting, Desire

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

  William Stafford

  Artist, May, Able

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• Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

  Shelley Winters

  Matter, Indifferent

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• Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Life Is Like, Life Is, Knows

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Exercise, Skills

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Choices, Might

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• Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Personality, Style, Extroverts

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, People, Enemy

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

  Michael Kimmelman

  Art, Jobs, Ordinary

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• In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Good And Bad, Absolutes

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• The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry, Medicine, or among members of the Airline Pilot's Association.

  Robert Genn

  Medicine, People, World

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• Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Differences, Treasure

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• In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Brain, Needs

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