#standard

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗

— Hugh Blair

#exactness #great #literature #purity #standard

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards. ↗

— John Doolittle

#membership #organization #own #private #right

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#advantage #because #decent #eight #get

I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please! ↗

— Yasmine Bleeth

#asked #bad #bad girl #been #date

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#acting #aim #approximate #artifice #away

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#compromise #money #need #standards #work

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#component #every #human #human rights #religion

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. ↗

— Franz Boas

#consciously #know #life #nevertheless #private