#standards

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. ↗

— Ed Markey

#america #comfort #compromising #could #economy

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

— Michael Bergdahl

#his #illustrative #master #reinforce #sam

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

— John Doolittle

#membership #organization #own #private #right

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. ↗

— John Wanamaker

#higher #keep #old #raise #standards

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 set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series. ↗

— Jim Evans

#enthusiasm #every #game #high #high standards

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

— Heston Blumenthal

#compromise #money #need #standards #work

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts. ↗

— Richard Burr

#current #current state #flip #granted #grid

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #constancy #double-standards #education #feminism

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality