#standards

Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine conduct [in order to warn men away from individual women who are deceitful] is contrary to the truth, just as I will show you with a hypothetical case. Let us suppose they did this intending to draw fools away from foolishness. It would be as if I attacked fire -- a very good and necessary element nevertheless -- because some people burnt themselves, or water because someone drowned. The same can be said of all good things which can be used well or used badly. But one must not attack them if fools abuse them. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#argument #clichés #conduct #damage #danger

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#could #did #i #inflate #known

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world. ↗

— Stephen Baldwin

#career #focused #i #inc #just

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football. ↗

— James Cameron

#certainly #environment #football #gifted #good

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#jazz #jazz record #make #record #standards

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

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

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#creativity #fashion-designer #idea #image #life