Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

When Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator, she voted for some trade deals when they met her standards, but she voted against others when they didn't.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.

When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Where do we stand today compared to Greece circa 400 B.C.? Today's experiment-driven 'standard model' is not all that dissimilar to Democritus's speculative [sic] atomic theory.

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action.

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

YouTube has gotten so big that you're not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that's a big fight.

Achievement is only possible through rigorous standards; remove those standards, and significant accomplishments will not arise.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

All the words that appear in the inner circle are attributes of God. To develop a relationship with Him we must know the implications of each for our lives. We need truth. His Word contains it. We need the ability to understand the truth. His Spirit will teach us. We need strength to cope with inner turmoil. His is omnipotent. We need a model to follow. Christ is God in human form. We need standards. He is righteous. We need acceptance. He is love. We need to know who is in charge. He is.

A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.

A standard is an agreed-upon level of quality or attainment. One. One level of quality or attainment that is agreed upon. In other words, when a society grows comfortable with the idea that there can be many standards, the people have, in effect, accepted the reality that there will be no standard. Anything goes. And that, my friends, is exactly what happened to a once great, once wealthy, once undefeatable world power.

American law schools are accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), which uses its power to promote diversity. In 2000, the ABA discovered that 93.5 percent of first-year students at George Mason University law school in northern Virginia were white. The ABA recognized that GMU had made a “very active effort to recruit minorities,” but said it had not done enough. With its accreditation at stake, GMU law school lowered standards for non-white applicants and admitted more: 10.98 percent in 2001 and 16.16 percent in 2002. That was still not enough. In 2003, the ABA summoned GMU’s president and law school dean and threatened them to their faces with disaccreditation unless they admitted more non-whites. GMU lowered standards even further, and managed to raise its non-white admissions to 17.3 percent in 2003, and 19 percent in 2004. This was still not good enough. “Of the 99 minority students in 2003,” the ABA complained, “only 23 were African American; of 111 minority students in 2004, the number of African Americans held at 23.” True diversity required more blacks, but what of the blacks GMU did admit? From 2003 to 2005, fully 45 percent had grade-point averages below 2.15, which was defined as “academic failure.” For non-black students, the figure was 4 percent. GMU officials pointed out that the ABA’s own Standard 501(b) says that “a law school shall not admit applicants who do not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its educational program and being admitted to the bar.” Law school dean Dan Polsby explained that this requirement was the greatest obstacle to increased diversity.

A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.

A man generally lives up to what is expected of him.

A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards...in order to appeal to the irrationality, dishonesty or stupidity of others.

As for Headmistress Crouch, I pegged her as the type who wouldn't have a mate, either because of her exacting standards, or because she ate him for dinner.

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.

Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Believing in your standards for a square deal, even when there's no way to get it, is what allows you to create boundaries and take independent action.

Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

Cultivating a proper internal standard of judgment is a good thing.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

But darling, when you get to finally realize your worth and sit standards to everything you allow or accept in your circle, It will be much easier for you to burn bridges, turn pages and fight only for what’s worthy of your time and energy …

Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

Don’t wish the world demanded less of you. Rise up and exceed its standards.