Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

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

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.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

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

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

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

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

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

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

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

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard.

McIlroy's taken the standard of golf to one level beyond where Tiger was.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

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

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.

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

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

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

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.