Top 1200 Academic Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I want young girls and women to feel like they connect with me and that they don't have to aspire for unreal beauty or fashion standards.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

You have to empower your sales staff to use their judgment and go beyond the standards set down on paper and by the computer.

With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

Over two billion people in China and India need commodities to grow their economies and improve their living standards.

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

Local school districts should be free to adapt their academic programs in ways appropriate for their community, but we cannot allow mindless budget shortfalls to force wrongheaded changes to our children's education.

There's absolutely no doubt consumers have more choice than ever, and the standards of all that provide food have improved over time.

Integrity and being ethical is one of Affectiva's core values. This means we hold the highest standards for all we do, especially in our science and products.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.

It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.

The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Union Budget 2012 has supported industry's long time demand to improve the provision and standards of education in the country.

I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span and did not get a lot out of high school academically. I think college was a little the same way.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

(F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

Don't focus on your body. Love it, but know it'll never be up to society's standards because it's all Photoshop and exclusivity. And that's okay!

'Vicky Donor' is now seen as a case study and the intelligentsias are looking at it from a strong academic point of view. I keep getting calls from medical practitioners who constantly thank me for making this film.