Best 374 quotes in «standards quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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'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 should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.

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.

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

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.

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 set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.

I was always trying to be leaner and thinner to fit the standard and the mold.

I worry about the Israeli moral standard, Israeli humanity.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

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 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.

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

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

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

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.

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

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

Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

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

Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

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

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

Never lower your standards just to fill a position. You will pay for it later.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Nixon would like to consign us to to the level of the most backward countries in the whole Middle East. Why lower us to the standard of the Saudis rather than raising the Saudis to meet us?

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.