Standards Quotes - Page 10

• Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

  Bill Hayden

  Linux, Available

  "Interview with Cosmoe's Bill Hayden". Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.

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• I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

  James Lovelock

  Religious, Way, Feels

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

  Evan Parker

  Air, People, Musical

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• The culture precedes positive results. It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

  Bill Walsh

  Winning, Nfl, Champion

  Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh (2009). “The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership”, p.48, Penguin

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

  Taiichi Ohno

  Kaizen

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• There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.

  Leonard Susskind

  Philosophy, Science, Reality

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• Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

  Berry Gordy

  Change, Long, Judging

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• I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

  Dan Gable

  Attitude, Progress, High Standards

  Gable, Dan (1998). “Coaching Wrestling Successfully”, p.15, Human Kinetics

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• We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic and predictable. We all make the same types of mistakes over and over, because of the basic wiring of our brains.

  Dan Ariely

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

  "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions". Book by Dan Ariely, February 19, 2008.

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• I love Koscielny, I’ve seen him a lot. He has good leg speed, which reminds me of Lilian [Thuram]. The last time we spoke I told him to work hard and he’ll become one of the best defenders in the world. He’s at the standard of a Vidic or Pique. I mean that sincerely.

  Marcel Desailly

  Mean, Hard Work, Legs

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• My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Simple, Use, Decay

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• Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

  Ralph Raico

  Honesty, Men, Blood

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• Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

  David Maister

  Believe, Excellence, Compromise

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• Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues its inevitable transition from the first Industrial Era... Pavan Sukhdev is a powerful standard-bearer leading us to the cleaner, knowledge-rich Green Economy globally, and this book provides a benchmark and guide to this better future for humanity.

  Achim Steiner

  Powerful, Book, Humanity

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• I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Mediocrity, Sometimes, Said

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

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• Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Wings, Broken, Size

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• Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

  Robert McCracken

  Real, Character, Men

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• If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards.

  Andrea Jones

  Doors, Choices, Males

  "Andrea Jones, Tennessee Transgender Woman, Goes Topless In DMV Protest". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in
  and outside the Ruby community... Rails has become a standard to which even
  well-established tools are comparing themselves to.

  Martin Fowler

  Community, Tools, Rubies

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• I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

  Barry Zito

  Running, Giving Up, Cocky

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• Different parents have different standards for their children.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Children, Parent, Different

  "Interview with Penelope Spheeris" by Pablo Kjolseth, www.moviehabit.com. January 31, 2001.

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• While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

  Jonathan Turley

  War, President, United States

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• Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Agency, Discipline, Community

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Reality, Discipline

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