Quotes about Standards
Teams that commit to decisions and standards do so because they know how to embrace two separate but related concepts: buy-in and clarity. Buy-in is the achievement of honest emotional support. Clarity is the removal of assumptions and ambiguity from a situation. Commitment is about a group of intelligent, driven individuals buying in to a decision precisely when they don't naturally agree. In other words, it's the ability to defy a lack of consensus.
- Patrick Lencioni
Results-oriented teams establish their own measurements for success. They don't allow themselves the wiggle room of subjectivity. But this is not easy, because subjectivity is attractive.
- Patrick Lencioni
The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?
- Paulo Coelho
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
- Joseph Brodsky
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
- Vance Havner
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde
My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way
- David Ogilvy
While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.
- Craig Groeschel
Part of the beauty of Victoria's Secret modeling is that they are called 'Angels' for a reason - because they're aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am.
- Rain Dove
A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.
- Lisa Wingate
The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
- Brian Tracy