Standards Quotes

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

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

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

We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place.

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

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.

IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Different parents have different standards for their children.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.

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.

Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.

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

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

We should also give students more flexibility in the courses they take in high school to prepare them for whatever their goals may be, without sacrificing our rigorous academic standards.

After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right wing here.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

We are all seeking to live up to normative standards that we recognize, even if we don't all recognize the same standards. This is something basic that we have in common despite our differences.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

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

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

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.

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

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.