Standards Quotes

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

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

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

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards and human rights.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

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 came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

All messages from Satan are played forward and are in standard American English.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge a man's physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.