Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

I don't want to put out something I'm not psyched on just because I finished it. That's the stupidest reason to do something, really. I want it to be up to my standards. I don't want to put out something I wouldn't listen to.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

If we cannot return to fiscal integrity because the public prefers profusion and prodigality over balanced budgets, we cannot escape paying the price, which is ever lower incomes and standards of living for all.

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

I grew up in San Diego, so it wasn't hard to move to L.A. to get into show business, but I did the standard thing of just moving without much money and just seeing if I could make it work.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me as it gets to almost everyone in this country.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

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

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.