Standards Quotes
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There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
William Stafford
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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
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
Lee Myung-bak
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State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
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On Valentine's day, I'm doing a show with an orchestra. We're doing a show with all standards for the Children's Hospital in Charleston.
Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.
Albert Einstein
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Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.
Michael Medved
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
Clark Gable
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The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged.
Albert Bandura
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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
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There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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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
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A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard
Kate Burridge
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
Rick Pitino
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The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.
William Proxmire
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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
Nellie McClung
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Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.
Adrian Morley
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I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.
Arnulf Rainer
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The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever the current version of that concept happens to be--is unremarkable because it is the standard by which everything else is measured. That is heterosexual privilege.
Hanne Blank
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It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.
Georgy Zhukov
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
John Baizley Baroness
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Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
Wes Jackson
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
William Osler
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Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.
Floyd Elliot Wray