DIFFERING STANDARDS
Everyone looks at life with their own perspective, bringing their own standards, their own ways of assessing a situation. A. H. Livingstone is a man who sells etchings to hotel managers. He is always trying to get his potential customer to raise his sights in the matter of standards of art. His product costs more, but he feels it is one that makes the room look better than the usual sporting prints or flower pictures that are more typically found in hotel rooms. When he tried to sell his product to a Los Angeles hotel the manager was unimpressed, and reminded him that the typical pictures he bought were only half as much as his prints. Finally Livingstone said, “Don’t you care about the quality of art you give your guests. Don’t you have any standards?” The manager replied, “Standards, sure, I have one standard, and that’s all I need. Any picture that goes into one of my bedrooms has to be…
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