“The US two party system is very different, of course. Here the people decides about who should rule them, but it is not reasonable to claim that the people rules itself through the political institutions. In comparison, I find that the standard European system is better, also as a model for global democracy.” PeopleShouldTwoDifferentPoliticalCoursesPartyDemocracyModelsStandardsClaimsInstitutionsReasonableComparisonPolitical InstitutionsTwo Party System Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“The only way people can repay the debt is by cutting their living standards very drastically. It means agreeing to shift their pension plans from defined benefit plans - when you know what you're going to get - into just "defined contribution plans," where you put money in, like into a roach motel, and you don't know what's coming out.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanCuttingPlansBenefitsStandardsDebtDefinedContributionComing OutPensionRoachesMotelsPension Plans Author:Michael Hudson
“I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why my publisher would publish this book [You belong to the universe] about it long after he's dead and irrelevant by many standards has to do with the fact that he was in a sense coming up with this job for himself that is the job that we now refer to when we speak about world change.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsLongBookFactsMightJobsUniverseSpeakStandardsExcitedPublishersIrrelevantPublishPlausibleBuckminster Fuller Author:Jonathon Keats
“You know, whatever it takes. It's very important obviously from an economic point of view because of the need for innovation, for progress, to improve the standard of living of people. But I also think it's a critical issue in geopolitics too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsImportantViewsIssuesProgressEconomicStandardsInnovationCriticalPoint Of ViewGeopoliticsStandards Of LivingWhatever It Takes Author:John Kasich
“Nowadays the movies that people are going to see in the theaters are the big-event movies, like Spider-Man or something, or they're 25-year-old models who are vampires, or they're very broad comedies, or they're standard action movies. So if you're going to work for a studio and do a movie for the budget that the movie needs, those are the kinds of movies you'll be in.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsYearsKindBigsActionComedyEventsModelsStandardsTheaterStudiosVampireBudgetsBroadsGoing To WorkSpidersAction MovieSpider ManBig Events Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.” PeopleIfsWayTryingWellsDifferentFunHonestStandardsGoldBeing HonestDifferent WaysCurvesGold Standard Author:John Calipari
“It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.” PeopleIfsWorldHappensBuildingProductsStandardsWinnerReasoningDescriptionImproving Author:Cathy O'Neil
“I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.” PeopleReasonEnoughMarriedStandardsVicesRidiculousTolerateHigh Standards Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away with the cancer of poverty, to eliminate the consequences of economic backwardness.” PeopleGivingCertainFatherPovertyEconomicHigherStandardsConsequenceCancerObjectivesStandards Of LivingHigher Standards Author:Indira Gandhi
“I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit it, isn't it true that you behave differently when people are watching you? You chew with your mouth closed and you mind your table manners because people are watching. Cops are no different. Dash cams and body cams should be standard operating procedure.” PeopleShouldMindBelieveDifferentCountryBodyI BelieveStandardsMouthsPoliceTablesMannersBehaveOfficersCopProceduresPolice OfficerTable MannersStandard Operating Procedures Author:Nancy Grace
“A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think they are right, that they are not being forced to write anything... What they don't tell you, and are maybe unaware of, is that they are allowed to write freely because their beliefs conform to the... standard doctrinal system, and then, yes, they are allowed to write freely and are not coerced.” PeopleThinkingWritingBeliefHonestMediaSeriousInvolvedStandardsConformHonest People Author:Noam Chomsky
“Hillary Clinton said we need to bring back vocational education in high school. We need to support community colleges. We need to make sure that people who are not going to finish college have a job waiting for them and the skills to do the job. These are all - have become fairly standard Democratic policy positions.” PeopleNeedsSaidSchoolJobsWaitingCommunitySupportPolicyPositionCollegeSkillsStandardsHigh SchoolDemocraticClintonCommunity CollegeVocational Education Author:George Packer
“To me the Nobel Peace laureates should not be hosted by a State Department that is continuing with war, removing basic civil liberties and human rights and international law and then talking about peace to young people. That's a double standard.” PeopleShouldHumansWarStatesLawYoungTalkingLibertyRightsStandardsInternationalHuman RightsDepartmentContinuingNobelCivil LibertiesDouble StandardInternational Law Author:Mairead Corrigan
“You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.” PeopleTwoCommonFiguresStandardsCoreReformTwo ThingsFlexibilityEducation ReformCommon CoreNational Standards Author:David Brooks
“We had to communicate through our lawyers a couple of times over the years, and [David Petraeus] told me that people have been like, "Good job, Dave." Congratulating him. That's the double standard. I've concluded that sharing it won't change anything.” PeopleYearsHas BeensJobsCoupleStandardsCommunicateLawyerGood JobDaveDouble Standard Author:Paula Broadwell
“The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.” PeopleNeedsGivingRunningLinesWalksRaceCompanyBreakGroupsProductsFineStandardsGenderMinoritiesLecturesOpen MindedFine LinesJust SayingDouble StandardPrismsMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCountryStatesGovernmentYoungUnitedCasesUnited StatesGoneStandardsEuropeAssumingTendenciesPeacefulGrantedErasGermanyStableConsistentlySystems Of Government Author:Barack Obama
“I treasure the fact there's media freedom, but with that goes responsibility. I think that there should be a self-regulatory organization and that they should start to think about standards. Because I think a lot of people say, "I don't know how to read what is true versus somebody else's interpretation."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldSelfFactsResponsibilityKnow HowMediaStandardsOrganizationTreasureInterpretationVersus Author:Ray Dalio
“Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.” PeopleWritingSaidTermStandards Author:Noam Chomsky
“I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.” PeopleKnowsWayWritingBookEyeWantedUsedCompanySuccessfulStandardsDecidedOilUsed To BeBeing SuccessfulUnfairOil CompaniesStandard OilJohn D Rockefeller Author:Ida Tarbell
“I'm glad I wrote the book to show what I found out about the [ Standard Oil Company]. I'm glad many people read my book and found out the truth.” PeopleBookShowsFoundCompanyStandardsOilGladOil CompaniesStandard Oil Author:John D. Rockefeller
“I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there are about 10-15 percent of people in the room, who say, "I've been trying to say this for years. Finally. I agree. Yes, yes, yes." I know there are about 15 percent of the people in the room who think I'm an idiot, who think I don't know what I'm talking about, who think I'm naive or I have oversimplified everything. The majority who are open to the ideal.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingYearsUnderstandingRoomsTalkingSpeechStandardsPercentIdealsAgreeMajorityMeetingsIdiotBellsCurvesNaiveDeviation Author:Simon Sinek
“If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.” PeopleIfsWayGivingI CanLanguageWalksRoomsSeeingStandardsMajorityNew Ways Author:Simon Sinek
“People sometimes say I broke an oath of secrecy - one of the early charges leveled against me. But it's a fundamental misunderstanding, because there is no oath of secrecy for people who work in the intelligence community. You are asked to sign a civil agreement, called a Standard Form 312, which basically says if you disclose classified information, they can sue you; they can do this, that and the other. And you risk going to jail.” PeopleIfsSometimesFormCan DoCommunityRiskInformationStandardsFundamentalsBrokeAgreementJailMisunderstandingSecrecyOathIntelligence CommunityClassified Information Author:Edward Snowden
“To the government, terrorism committed by people who are Muslim is not a reflection on the legitimate interpretation of Islam, even if Islamic supremacist ideology, which endorses jihad violence - Islam, standard, mainstream Islam endorses jihad violence, but our government doesn't want to admit that or deal with it. Here in America, as in Western Europe, this is the key to understand.” PeopleIfsWantGovernmentAmericaDealsViolenceKeysStandardsReflectionEuropeIslamWesternCommittedTerrorismIdeologyIslamicInterpretationMainstreamJihadWestern Europe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think it's fine that there are five million people who are watching [politics on TV], and obviously I'm happy they are since they're on the air, and there are a couple hundred thousand people reading The Weekly Standard online, and that's great too, but most Americans aren't engaged that intensely, and are much less partisan.” PeopleThinkingReadingMillionsFiveAirTvsFineCoupleThousandStandardsHundredEngagedOnlinePartisans Author:William Kristol
“If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.” PeopleIfsThinkingStandards Author:Scott Frost
“God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.” PeopleNationsBlessingStandardsBehaveConformityDisregard Author:Daniel L Dreisbach
“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even the last 12 or 16 of private enrichment in office and scandals where people have to resign and things like that, because just once the standards go, behavior tends to go.” PeopleThinkingYearsDifferentLastsConsciousnessHavensTrumpOfficeBehaviorStandardsEightNot SureDistinctionScandalPublic LifeErosionEnrichment Author:David Brooks
“The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.” PeopleThinkingBigsVisionAdviceStandardsBiggerAimSurroundSurround YourselfThink BigBest AdviceBrosSurround Yourself With People Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Now obviously popularity isn't everything when it comes to stand up comedy, but the art form itself is better today than it ever has before. I think there are more great comics. I think the standard is higher. The critical analysis is a little harsher, but that is also good. Maybe people have a higher standard than before, maybe they are a little more judgmental, a little more brutal, that makes people work harder. It makes the stand up better.” PeopleThinkingLittlesArtTodayFormComedyHard WorkHigherStandardsHarderCriticalAnalysisBrutalPopularityWork HarderJudgmentalStand Up ComedyHigher StandardsCritical Analysis Author:Joe Rogan
“Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.” PeopleThinkingPlayAbleGamesIntegrityLuckyStandardsGolfFortunateHigh Standards Author:George W. Bush
“The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it, that's the way it is. But let's be clear, a lot of it is driven by the views of a pretty small number of people, rather than a normal standard of journalism.” PeopleWayViewsNumbersClearTroubleMediaNormalStandardsDrivenComplainingJournalismNo PointPartisansSmall Numbers Author:Tony Blair
“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom.” PeopleImportantYoungCan DoTeacherStandardsImportant ThingsClassroomBest TeacherHigh Standards Author:Barack Obama
“The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayKindEnoughUsePlayerKeysStandardsBunchHiringHigh StandardsKey Things Author:Reid Hoffman
“Today, natural gas now outstrips coal as the leading provider of electricity in America. If this is as big as people believe it is, natural gas will soon be powering trucks and marine ships. Maybe even standard commercial cars that people use at home through compressed natural gas, other gas to liquids. The potential is there for more energy independence by America and a reliance on cleaner fuel - natural gas emits half as much as coal, in terms of carbon emissions. That's a real bounty.” PeopleIfsBelieveRealUseHomeBigsTodayAmericaEnergyTermNaturalHalfCarStandardsIndependenceShipsFuelGasElectricityCarbonCoalTruckMarineRelianceLiquidEmissionsCleanersProvidersBountyNatural GasCarbon EmissionsEnergy Independence Author:Thomas Friedman
“Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.” PeopleKnowsWellsLooksMadeDoneDreamFilmStrangeStandardsLook UpLoadLots Of MoneyStrange Dreams Author:Shahrukh Khan
“I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.” PeopleThinkingKindMovingPoliticalUsedStrongGivenProcessUnitedPartyMoralGoneDemocracyStupidCitizensStandardsAdvantageEssenceCourtSupremeMassiveGrantsEthicalFloodSupreme CourtBackwardsTaxationRulingAdmirablePolitical SystemsSupplementsAdventAmerican DemocracyCitizens UnitedEthical Standards Author:Jimmy Carter
“I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not a great quality because if people held me to that standard, no one would be around me - ever.” PeopleIfsHardWould BeForgetQualityStandardsRevengeNever ForgetExacting RevengeSicilianGreat Qualities Author:Amy Adams
“I don't think the music industry has done any damage to my faith - it's probably strengthened it because it's made me see how necessary and relevant it is. I think if you don't keep your guard up, obviously there's a lot of potential for being half-hearted throughout the whole process because you can compare yourself to other people instead of the ultimate standard.” PeopleIfsThinkingMadeDoneWholeProcessHalfIndustryStandardsUltimateCompareDamageRelevantHeartedMusic IndustryHalf HeartedGuards Up Author:LeCrae
“We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.” PeopleKindCharacterUsedLevelsPartyMoralGoneMoralityStandardsAdultsDignityDemocratAspireDecency Author:Rush Limbaugh
“By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.” PeopleImportantSchoolYoungModelsStandardsTestsExcitingMethodFactorsEducatedAccountabilityUrbanBusiness ModelsSuccess Or Failure Author:Jonathan Kozol
“People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.” PeopleYearsChildrenSpeakBoysStruggleGroupsMissingStandardsCatBallsPotatoesVariation Author:Jonathan Kozol
“It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.” PeopleStandardsPerformancesPopularityMaintainingCompetentEntertainersProfessionalism Author:Jon Landau
“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.” PeopleWellsDoeEndsMoralStandardsAreasThe End Of The DayCheat Author:Carl Lewis
“There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.” PeopleIfsHas BeensSaidMatterValuesCultureNamesMoralityStandardsIntentionBe GoodHonorableRelaxedDisintegration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.” PeopleIfsFallFiguresJudgingPoliticianMetsLowsStandardsHigh StandardsPublic Figures Author:Moby
“America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantDoeAmericaValuesNationsStandardsExploitationVulgarity Author:Charles W. Pickering
“A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.” PeopleStandardsGoldGoodsStabilityGoods And ServicesGold Standard Author:Ben Bernanke
“You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.” PeopleCareJobsTermEducationHigherStandardsHealth CareDecentStandards Of LivingHigher StandardsScandinavia Author:Bernie Sanders