“Since becoming a mother, I'd say it's more so affected my general outlook on things. I'm less worried about everything. Less scared to make those numbers that people think are standard or less scared to create something that maybe I don't think people are going to like, because it's all about if I like it. I need to be happy.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMotherNumbersBecomingStandardsScaredWorriedAffectedOutlookBecoming A Mother Author:Lights
“I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the western suburbs of Sydney could become an actress in movies who didn't look like a regular actress, and that I can make it I think gives a lot of hope to other girls who are really creative and don't necessarily follow the standard of what some people consider beauty to be.” PeopleThinkingGivingLooksI CanFactsYoungGirlCreativeMessagesStandardsWesternActressesLike MeSuburbsSydneyOther Girl Author:Rebel Wilson
“Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.” ThinkingSelfMightGivenTermHigherStandardsDefinedAttainmentSuccess And FailureSelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.” PeopleThinkingMindHumansBookIdeasMatterFactsBigsAgeBeautifulCertainDiesStrongHuman BeingsHealthyStandardsWeakIllnessUglyTheme Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.” ThinkingWritingStillsProblemSchoolLawFightingReadingUnderstandingRaceClassPovertyStudyGroupsConditionsStudentsTheoryProjectsIntellectualTrainingStandardsConcernTraditionPrisonCriticalActivistDisabilityGraduatesAcademicScholarTopicsCampusLaw SchoolFighting On Author:Dean Spade
“I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.” ThinkingWayNeedsImpossibleShapesWasteStandardsIncludingSizeMagazinesMeasuringPhysical Beauty Author:Kate Grenville
“I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.” ThinkingChildrenMotherCertainSocialAmountBehaviorStandardsPressureRegardOur ChildrenConformUnnaturalSocial Pressure Author:Jillian Medoff
“When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do a lot more within our school districts to recruit aggressively, select people according to high standards, invest in their training and development, and foster and reward their leadership. Once we invest more in attracting, developing and retaining teachers, potential recruits will begin to see it as a profession worth considering.” PeopleThinkingSchoolCan DoMoralIssuesTeacherDevelopmentSolutionsTrainingStandardsRewardsProfessionDevelopingConsideringImperativesSelectHigh StandardsRecruitRetainingSchool Districts Author:Wendy Kopp
“The thing that I loved about growing up Mormon is that I had morals and standards instilled in me as a kid - like, you need to be a nice person, and a thoughtful person, and if anybody is trying to dog that, then I think that's rude.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingPersonsKidsMoralGrowing UpNiceGrowingDogLike YouStandardsThoughtfulRudeNice Person Author:Julianne Hough
“I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.” ThinkingWould BeActorsSpeakProtectStandardsFemaleMalesActressesPersonaDouble Standard Author:Mila Kunis
“Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about what they're doing in South Korea and places like that. It's like the standard of living. Are you content to achieve your higher standard of living at the expense of people all over the world who've got a lower standard of living? Most Americans would say yes. Now we ask the question, are you content to enjoy your political freedom at the expense of people who are less free? I think they would also say yes.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsPoliticalThreeAsksEnjoyMorningWorryAchieveHigherStandardsSouthExpensesApartmentKoreaStandards Of LivingPolitical FreedomHigher StandardsSouth KoreaBusting Author:William S. Burroughs
“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.” PeopleThinkingMenRealFatherAttitudePlayerFieldsGrewMajorsGrew UpStandardsMen And WomenBaseballReal LifeLeagueBaseball PlayerDouble StandardMajor LeagueMajor League Baseball Author:Katie Uhlaender
“EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix.” ThinkingStatesEnergyPlansStandardsAppropriateConsiderationGuidelinesEpa Author:Gina McCarthy
“I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.” ThinkingHas BeensHouseWhiteHighestStandardsWhite HouseEthicalEthical Standards Author:Al Gore
“Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom of a deeply-involved citizenry thinking independently and holding the government to the highest standards.” ThinkingTwoStatesGovernmentTodayTechnologyInvolvedHighestStandardsAvailableMassiveSurveillanceCrossroadsCitizenrySurveillance State Author:Oliver DeMille
“I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of making a decent anthology.” ThinkingLongStoriesFilmActingQualityStandardsRemainsDecentConsistentEtcAnthologyGood Change Author:Neil Marshall
“I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.” ThinkingStatesAmericaSongUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsStandardsSongwritingUnited States Of AmericaGreat AmericanZenith Author:Linda Ronstadt
“Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.” PeopleThinkingWantCountryInvolvedStandardsSickSafetyTablesFarmsProceduresFood SafetyFood Supply Author:Marion Nestle
“I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe food. It has a horrible name; it's called HACCP - Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point - and this was a food safety system that was developed for NASA so that astronauts wouldn't get sick in outer space. If you just think about what it might be like to have food poison under conditions of zero gravity, you don't even want to think about it.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantMightNamesSpaceKnow HowPlansConditionsProduceSafeStandardsSickSafetyCriticalHorribleProducersAnalysisPoisonZeroGravityAstronautHazardsNasaOuter SpaceFood SafetyZero GravitySafe Food Author:Marion Nestle
“I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. I think it ought to be governed by the standards of how it affects the individual animals, just as we'd want to deal with institutions that deal with humans by how they affect individual humans.” ThinkingWantHumansIndividualAnimalDealsModernOughtStandardsInstitutionsNotionGrossFarmingInterference Author:Peter Singer
“Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are fighting for ideals. We are fighting for oil and tin and rubber and markets, and as long as we insist on a standard of life that is so high above all the rest of the world, we're going to have to pay for our standard of living with a lot of blood. I think we ought to re-examine the fact that Jesus was a pauper, and we should be committing ourselves to a very humble, simple way of life.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldLongWarFactsFightingJesusSimplePayBloodMaterialsOughtStandardsIdealsHumbleOilRubberStandards Of LivingTinMaterial ThingsSimple Ways Author:Clarence Jordan
“Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'” IfsThinkingWritingTwoEnoughThreeAsksLiteratureWorstLowsStandardsSentences Author:Carol Bly
“When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.” ThinkingDoneFeelingsBeautifulGuyGirlThreeWaitingApproachStandardsFilledAssumingBarsLeagueEtcSwimmingPoolBeautiful GirlSwimming PoolJellyfishFeelings For Her Author:Jason Mulgrew
“I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color.” ThinkingLooksPersonsStillsRealPlayProblemLastsGamesWhiteTelevisionColorWillingIndustryStandardsWorkersReplaced Author:Jami Floyd
“I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.” ThinkingYearsLevelsAchievementHighestStandardsInternationalCompareCricketGarfield Author:Sunil Gavaskar
“It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.” ThinkingSelfEasierThousandAchievementStandardsCharityOneselfNobleSelf RespectDonatePersonal Achievement Book:The Fountainhead Source: The Fountainhead
“Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.” ThinkingUnderstandingLandStandardsMarkTicketsCommodityLicenseStaplesStatutes Book:Prose works Source: Prose works
“I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsIdeasGuySoundEffortDirectorsStandardsFirst TimeGood IdeasFilmmakingMikeGreat OnesGood RelationshipCollaborative Effort Author:Patrick Wilson
“A church has the right to set its own standards within its community. I don't think it has a right to prohibit birth control or to enforce upon a secular society its conception of divorce and the indissolubility of the marriage tie.” ThinkingCommunityChurchBirthStandardsDivorceTiesConceptionSecularBirth ControlSecular Society Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I can't remember ever being really bored. I find life very interesting, actually. I think some other musicians are always looking for something to give them an idea, but I find I have to reject 90 percent of my ideas because they don't live up to some self-imposed standard. That's also why I don't make a record once a year. I throw so many things out, and I have to have something to say.” ThinkingGivingYearsI CanIdeasSelfRememberInterestingRecordsMusicianStandardsPercentBoredRejectsBeing RealVery Interesting Author:Tom Verlaine
“What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesLongImportantJobsEvilNationsBitsTakenNiceInfluenceSeriousLittle BitStandardsDevilRedTinySubstanceAttractiveHelpfulFlashBeing NiceTailsSalesmanGreat WomenEvil Things Author:Albert Brooks
“But you need to strive to try and communicate and try and change things in a similar way. And then people can think that's pretentious or whatever, but it's your life's work, and you've decided that. That's what they made us believe. So we have a pretty high standard, which is at times great and at times not.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsTryingBelieveMadeStandardsDecidedStriveCommunicatePretentiousHigh Standards Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“A republican form of government requires four standards: It demands a highly educated population manifesting critical thinking that participates in the affairs of the nation. It requires that citizens invest in a similar moral code. It insists on a mutual ethical system abided by all. It must engender a single language whereby all citizens can discuss, debate, come to resolution and initiate mutual beneficial action for their society.” ThinkingGovernmentActionFormLanguageNationsMoralFourCitizensRepublicanDemandStandardsAffairPopulationCriticalDebateEducatedCodeMutualResolutionEthicalManifestBeneficialCritical ThinkingForms Of GovernmentInitiateMoral Code Author:Frosty Wooldridge
“The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsSpeakSocialResultsEconomyEconomicFiguresTruth IsMassStandardsCapitalismHistoricalPopulationBeneficialUnprecedentedStandards Of LivingEpitaphMarket EconomySocial SystemsPropagandistWrens Author:Ludwig von Mises
“My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if the U.S. dollar was no longer the world's reserve currency. That's how valuable it is.” IfsThinkingWorldI CanCountryLossImagineSeeingStandardsConcernDollarsFinancialValuableOur CountryCurrencyReservesReductionSuggestingStandards Of Living Author:Sam Zell
“Our standard prescription for the know-nothing investor with a long-term time horizon is a no-load index fund. I think that works better than relying on your stock broker. The people who are telling you to do something else are all being paid by commissions or fees. The result is that while index fund investing is becoming more and more popular, by and large it's not the individual investors that are doing it. It's the institutions.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLongIndividualTermResultsBecomingStandardsPaidInstitutionsInvestingLong TermFundHorizonInvestorsLoadPrescriptionsBecoming MoreFeesBrokersIndex FundsStock Broker Author:Charlie Munger
“I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.” ThinkingWritingLittlesHas BeensUseLanguageNew YorkStandardsFoundationJournalismAccuracyNew York Times Author:Will Leitch
“People would like to place a standard on our show that doesn't exist. We're not set up for reporting; we don't have an apparatus for that. We're discussing things that hopefully people might get something out of, but it's wildly inconsistent. Just because we hit on points that resonate, or people think are real complaints - that doesn't make us journalists.” PeopleThinkingRealShowsMightStandardsHopefullyJournalistComplaintsDiscussingInconsistent Author:Jon Stewart
“I think that different leaders, whether it`s Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we`re not going to turn on each other, which is exactly what ISIS wants. I think that`s what this moment calls for and I think, right now, you see who are the pandering demagogues, and who are the people who really have a higher standard and the best public interest at heart.” PeopleThinkingWantHeartDifferentMomentsTurnsInterestLeaderHigherRight NowStandardsClintonIsisTurn-onPublic InterestHigher Standards Author:Steve King
“I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenMadeMightWould BeFilmNormalMarriedStandardsBeing MarriedNormal LifeConnecticutVeterinarianExorcist Author:Linda Blair
“You think homosexuality is disgusting? Then, it follows as the night the day, that you find sex disgusting, for there is nothing done between two men or two women that is, by any objective standard, different from that which is done between a man and a woman.” ThinkingMenTwoDifferentDoneNightSexStandardsObjectivesDisgustingHomosexuality Book:Moab is My Washpot Source: Moab is My Washpot
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy.” IfsThinkingWayWellsBigsHouseEnergyAirCarYouthPlanetsStandardsNew WaysConditioningBig HousesAir Conditioning Author:Barack Obama
“I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?” PeopleThinkingMatterBigsTvsStandardsScreensCinemaBig Screen Author:Noel Clarke
“My standards are higher than they used to be, I think. They don't necessarily have to make sense, but I certainly work on them a lot harder now -- partly because I do them on the computer, and I print them out and fix them, and print them and fix them over and over again, whereas in the early days I used to just scratch down a few things on a piece of paper.” ThinkingUsedPiecesHigherPaperComputerStandardsHarderUsed To BeMake SensePrintScratches Author:Dean Wareham
“So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.” IfsThinkingFieldsStandardsInvestment Author:Warren Buffett
“I'm no longer beholden to the sacredness of the recorded song as some kind of ultimate standard by which every performance of the song is measured. I like to diversify, that there are multiple versions of every song. And the songs incorporate a lot of improvisation, and an element of chance, and I think that's exciting. There's no one true formulation of a song, they have various manifestations depending on the space we're in. I like that.” ThinkingKindSongChanceSpaceElementsStandardsPerformancesUltimateExcitingVariousVersionsManifestationMultipleImprovisationSacredness Author:Sufjan Stevens
“We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIndustryStandardsOur ChildrenHip HopEntertainmentRefuseWideHipsHopsEntertainment Industry Author:Bakari Kitwana
“On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.” ThinkingShowsBigsSidesEffortIssuesDangerousTrumpStandardsConservativeMagazinesChiefsEditorsReviewsHostQualifiedCommandersTalk ShowsCruzCommander In Chief Author:Mara Liasson
“In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.” PeopleIfsThinkingStatesEnoughLawHappenedStudentsSucceedAchievementStandardsToughTestsDrivenIdeologyGapsOld PeopleFrameworkAchievement Gap Author:Diane Ravitch
“When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.” ThinkingSoulReadingPresidentOfficeStandardsPicksGet UpMatesConsentLaddersAdviseIdeologicalSoul Mate Author:Russ Feingold