#standard

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#beauty #character #conduct #contributes #courage

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

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

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#become #chance #escape #got #i

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#buck #considerable #facet #had #just

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. ↗

— Christo

#art #chicago #contemporary #contemporary art #created

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#high #high standards #i #know #lived

Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards of political independence and accountability. ↗

— John Cornyn

#attorney #attorney general #basic #deserve #general

This framing accents the importance of building a tidier system, one that incorporates the array of existing child care centers, then pushes to make their classrooms more uniform, with a socialization agenda "aligned" with the curricular content that first or second graders are expected to know. Like the common school movement, uniform indicators of quality, centralized regulation, more highly credientialed teachers are to ensure that instruction--rather than creating engaging activities for children to explore--will be delivered in more uniform ways. And the state signals to parents that this is now the appropriate way to raise one's three- or four-year-old. Modern child rearing is equated with systems building in the eyes of universal pre-kindergarten advocates--and parents hear this discourse through upbeat articles in daily newspapers, public service annoucement, and from school authorities. ↗

— Bruce Fuller

#children #kindergarten #preschool #school-systems #standardized-tests