Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.

Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

The dream of capitalism is to co-opt people with higher living standards without redistributing any wealth. Without co-optation, widespread repression is the only guarantor of gross inequality.

The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.

The larger and more indiscriminate the audience, the greater the need to safeguard and purify standards of quality and taste.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.