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.

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.

The power of beauty: what must the world be like for ugly women?

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

My motto has always been: Only first class business and that in a first class way

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.

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.

The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.