Standards Quotes

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

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

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

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

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

Moral standards cannot be changed by battle and cannot be changed by ballot.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

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.

Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard.

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

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

Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

God elevates nations that behave in conformity with God's standards but he withdraws his blessings from a people who disregard those standards.

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

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

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

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.

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

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.

I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.

Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.

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.

The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.