Quotes About Lowering Standards

#1. Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

Richard Attenborough

#2. No matter how we may single out a complex from nature ... its theoretical treatment will never prove to be ultimately conclusive ... I believe that this process of deepening of theory has no limits.

Albert Einstein

#3. What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#4. Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. Lowering the Lord's standards to the level of a society's inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Lynn G. Robbins

#6. It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

Orrin Woodward

#7. I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

Jon Fitch

#8. Harold (about max): he looks kinda like a football couch
Chester (sarcastically): Yay team rah rah. if he says anything athletic i'll scream
max: want to jog?
(chester screams).

James Howe

#9. Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Gloria Steinem

#10. Well, it doesn't work. Lowering standards just leads to poorly educated students who feel entitled to easy work and lavish praise.

Matthew Syed

#11. I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.

Beth Ditto

#12. Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.

Vironika Tugaleva

#13. A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Brian W. Aldiss

#14. Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. When I read, it is not acted literature; but what I write is written acting.

Karl Kraus

#16. Trust me, it has been anything but easy to make it as an actor.

Dhanush

#17. Although there is a human settlement at Jakobshavn, Greenland is an inhuman landscape of never-ending wastes.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#18. If Jesus Christ treated me like you do, I'd drive in the nails myself.

Nelson Algren

#19. Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

#20. Momentarily a wing of zodiacal radiance could be seen, like a halo over the rising fire-disk.

Poul Anderson

#21. Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Ramon Bautista

#22. You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

Steve Harvey

#23. Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

Simon S. Tam

#24. Compromise - Lowering my standards. So you can meet them.

Anita Liberty