Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

A standard of living is of the nature of habit. ...it acts almost solely to prevent recession from a scale of conspicuous expenditure that has once become habitual.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest standard, other things being equal, have reaped the richest harvest.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

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

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

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.

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.

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

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

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.