Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Whatever you really want, wants don't get met consistently, standards do.

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

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.