Quotes About Lowering Standards

#1. 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

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

Matthew Syed

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

Anita Liberty

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Ramon Bautista

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

Poul Anderson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Nelson Algren

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

Richard Davenport-Hines

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

Dhanush

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

Karl Kraus

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

Michel De Montaigne

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

Vironika Tugaleva

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Jon Fitch

#19. 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

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

Lynn G. Robbins

#21. 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

#22. 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.

#23. 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

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

Richard Attenborough