Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 like me, raise your hand. If you don't, 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 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 disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of 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 have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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