Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
At age 14, my belief systems began to change about myself, about God, about humans, about values, and about moral standards. I also began to align myself with the principles that are laid down by the Creator in the book called the Bible.
Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.
An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.
If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards. . . set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.
There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn.
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.
You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today. The assessment of the product is something that happens after you've done it.
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God.
Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.
By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that happens. . . we set our own standards even before we walk out the door. Most of the time, those standards are self insulting. Most of the time we belittle ourselves, because we can't have the things we think we're suppose to have. That's what we've bought into.
I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses
Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers.