Rigor Quotes

Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis. - Tim Zagat

When you design a program without proper academic credentials and rigor, what you have is a diploma mill. - Michael Green

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous. - Rene Redzepi

What's unique is that the state is trying to create a system with a lot more rigor in its middle schools. It's about trying to give parents good schools for their kids. We underestimate the ability of teenagers and our high school students to know what they like, what they're good at, and what they excel at. - Jeanne Allen

What the FDA initiated was in some ways a natural experiment. This is the kind of rigorous scientific information the FDA should consider in evaluating its decisions. - Darrel Regier

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows / it must grow; nothing can prevent it. - Mark Twain

We've been talking about the importance of this study for the last two or three years. This is the most important study ever done. It has a very large number of patients and it is scientifically rigorous. - John Klippel

We're using new manufacturing techniques and new facilities to produce unprecedented lightweight precision optics for the Webb Telescope. That the mirror segments are moving smoothly through a process with such rigorous specifications is a tribute to the manufacturing team's expertise. - Martin Mohan

We're trying to get that kid who has all the gifts, but doesn't have the structure -- that home environment -- and give him the support, challenges, rigor and expectations that a boarding-school environment provides. - Robert Blair

We're suffering from a shortage of rigorous ideas about what's happening to function in the human brain in these diseases. - Lawrence Goldstein