Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor … and I'm not looking forward to it.

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the standard of living there isn't higher than it is in Germany. Second, Greece is paying a high price for European assistance.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

Licking Falls, Ohio, had its own set of standards. They were archaic at best.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.