Standards Quotes

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.

The country's top chefs, designers, media personalities and businesses are part of this dynamic city. We know that Chicagoans are used to the highest standards.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

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

If we want to live healthy relationships, according to biblical standards, it is done in the fullness of the Spirit.

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

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.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

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.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

45 years is a long time to do anything, let alone for a rock band to play together. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and proud that we've kept the high standards.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be.

I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Saying no is a little different. Holding a grudge is the modern equivalent of having standards.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

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

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.