Standards Quotes

• 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.

  

  Sandra Brown
  • Trouble
  • Straight
  • Impose

• Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Standards
  • Kaizen

• I think that if I'd not made the movie, I might be a veterinarian in Connecticut. I would probably be married with some children. That's probably the way it would be. But because of the film [the Exorcist], I don't have a normal life by somebody else's standards.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Life
  • Children
  • Movie

• Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Poverty
  • Employment

• The standards for ballot access in New York State apply equally to all candidates seeking a given political nomination, ... In other words, all similarly situated are treated equally.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Political
  • Words
  • New York

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

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Failures
  • Successes
  • Stringent

• According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Competition
  • Shame

• The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

  

  George Meany
  • Change
  • Americans
  • Decency

• The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • People
  • Learning
  • Chinese

• I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Food

• I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Standards
  • Lows

• The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Improvement
  • Performances
  • Abilities

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

  

  Michael Bergdahl
  • Stories
  • Masters
  • Storyteller

• Does it really make sense for countries who really are producing very little IP of their own to be signing on to the strongest IP standards in the world? ... What's the advantage to them?

  

  Lael Brainard
  • World
  • Standards
  • IP

• Debbie was accused of being too overtly sexual and now the standards are different. Times have changed.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Different
  • Sexual
  • Debbie

• There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  

  William Stafford
  • Enough
  • Block
  • Lows

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

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Investment
  • Standards
  • Eliminate

• I've always thought that you just make everything as best as you can, and then, one day, people will look objectively at what you do, from a distance, and see its quality. All you try to do is keep the standard up so that, one day, when I sit back and I look at it all, I can feel really good about it.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Trying
  • Quality

• I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • High
  • Married

• When it comes to the safety of the kids, we expect the same standards to be held with contractors and our own employees. We will be investigating.

  

  John Whiting
  • Safety
  • Expect
  • Held

• What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress.

  

  Serge Lang
  • Community
  • Congress
  • Relation

• I left, but not before I kissed your mother eight times on the lips. That’s what we do, and amid all this uncertainty and lack of normalcy, I think it’s important to maintain our standards.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Mother
  • Left
  • Kissed

• The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

  

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Choose
  • Standards

• No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Reality
  • Judge
  • Image

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