Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

God's standard of judgment goes down to the intents of the heart.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.

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.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

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

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

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.

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

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

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

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