#standard

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#hard-to-get #knowing-your-worth #love #playing-hard-to-get #positive-thinking

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole. ↗

— Richard Grasso

#china #confidence #done #economic #financial

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#any #bored #completely #different #direction

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

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

— Bill Hayden

#available #linux #standard #works

Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated. ↗

— Brad Henry

#became #called #compassion #defeated #face

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers. ↗

— Jim Knight

#challenging #changing #come #constantly #economic

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress. ↗

— Serge Lang

#also #community #congress #including #internally

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alien #america #bulwark #conscious #decent

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art