#standard

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence. ↗

— John le Carre

#espionage #existence #inside-out #lived #mentality

There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#casually #easy #easy way #far #gone

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#entire #i #interchangeable #management #modern

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#even #i #pretty #rock #rock star

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal