Standards Quotes

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

I'm a firm believer in quality > quantity, and I think it's important to have high standards in any product creation product.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

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.

It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.

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.

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.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Women all live a double standard.

There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

I have impossible standards.

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

You had journalist saying during the campaign that Donald Trump compels them to suspend all objective standards of journalism.

Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

People want to be liked by other people so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

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.

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

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

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.

I believe in the single standard -- for men and women.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

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.

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.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

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

If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I think we need to find somebody that can meet that standard.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to.

As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.