Quotes tagged ‘Standards’

“I'm a person, not something to hide.”

— Gil Ozeri, Mark Levin, Kelly Galuska, Andrew Goldberg, Jennifer Flackett, NATALIE, Josie Totah, imdb.com

“[Chris Knight is trying to hit on Susan, a beautiful woman he finds in Professor Hathaway's house] Chris Knight: So, if there's anything I can do for you—or, more to the point, to you—just let me know. Susan: Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis? Chris Knight: Not right no…”

— Neal Israel, Pat Proft, Peter Torokvei, Chris Knight, Val Kilmer, imdb.com

“We don't have standards... I mean we do. We have a lot of them. And they're real high.”

— Danny McBride, Judy Gemstone, Edi Patterson, imdb.com

“I've made the mistake of judging by my own standards.”

— Jed Mercurio, Julia Montague, Keeley Hawes, imdb.com

“Boys are taught to become somebody, girls are taught to find somebody.”

— Katherine Ryan, Herself, Katherine Ryan, imdb.com

“Wanting your significant other to be loyal to you is crazy. If you don’t want to be crazy, lower your expectations.”

— Maggie Lakes, medium.com

“My name is Sabrina Spellman and I will not sign it away.”

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Salli Richardson Whitfield, Jeff Woolnough, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Ross Maxwell, Rob Seidenglanz, Oanh Ly, Michael Goi, Matthew Barry, Alex Garcia Lopez, Mj Kaufman, Christina Ham, Donna Thorland, Sabrina, Kiernan Shipka, imdb.com

“You need to accept that you are not perfect, and that making mistakes is a normal part of being a leader and a human.”

— David Meltzer, entrepreneur.com

“The hype around Kavinsky actually illustrates how low the bar has been set for men in cis hetero relationships.”

— Hussein Kesvani, melmagazine.com

“I know! Like Tiffany would ever date someone who wore a tweed jacket.”

— Peter Elwell, Quinn Morgendorffer (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com

“Jane: She's cute, there are different standards for cute people. Daria: You mean no standards.”

— Rachel Lipman, Peggy Nicoll, Jane Lane (voice), Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com

“What does it mean to go after something, fail at it, become irrationally upset at failure, watch people no longer let you try that one thing because they’ve watched you fail at it, and then convince yourself it wasn’t worth going after?”

— John Gorman, medium.com

“It's your life, but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt,, amazon.com

“How absurd that you minimize female self-respect and self-worth by saying someone should stay in a toxic relationship...I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be.”

— Ariana Grande, teenvogue.com

“You let toxic people leave your life, because ultimately, you know it’s a gain, not a loss. Rather than trying to convince someone to morph into a decent person, or rationalizing their destructive behavior, you allow them to show their true colors and plan your own speedy exit. You have no more time…”

— Katerina Lolita, thoughtcatalog.com

“Building a culture of high standards is well worth the effort, and there are many benefits. Naturally and most obviously, you’re going to build better products and services for customers – this would be reason enough! Perhaps a little less obvious: people are drawn to high standards – they help with…”

— Jeff Bezos, phx.corporate-ir.net

“We don’t do PowerPoint (or any other slide-oriented) presentations at Amazon. Instead, we write narratively structured six-page memos. We silently read one at the beginning of each meeting in a kind of “study hall.””

— Jeff Bezos, phx.corporate-ir.net

““Most people,” he said, “think that if they work hard, they should be able to master a handstand in about two weeks. The reality is that it takes about six months of daily practice. If you think you should be able to do it in two weeks, you’re just going to end up quitting.” Unrealistic beliefs on s…”

— Jeff Bezos, phx.corporate-ir.net

“What do you need to achieve high standards in a particular domain area? First, you have to be able to recognize what good looks like in that domain. Second, you must have realistic expectations for how hard it should be (how much work it will take) to achieve that result – the scope.”

— Jeff Bezos, phx.corporate-ir.net

“Another important question is whether high standards are universal or domain specific. In other words, if you have high standards in one area, do you automatically have high standards elsewhere? I believe high standards are domain specific, and that you have to learn high standards separately in eve…”

— Jeff Bezos, phx.corporate-ir.net