Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.

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

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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