Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

If you want to change your life you have to 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 have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

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

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

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'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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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 encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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 worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

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

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

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

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

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

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.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.