Standards Quotes

• 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
  • Children
  • Valentine's Day
  • Charleston

• 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

• Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

  

  Alfred A. Montapert
  • People
  • Animals
  • Standards

• 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 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

• Keep your heel, head and standards high.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Standards
  • Heel

• The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Performance
  • Adequacy
  • Attainments

• 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

• There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • World
  • Needs
  • Accepting

• The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Human

• A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard

  

  Kate Burridge
  • Communication
  • Standards
  • Dialect

• 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
  • Standards
  • Models
  • Heterosexuality

• Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Competition
  • Performance
  • Standards

• The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Arbitrary
  • Allowance
  • Tainted

• 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
  • Influence
  • Believer
  • Canada

• 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
  • Want
  • Self
  • Careful

• 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
  • Experience
  • Shape
  • Tranquillity

• 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
  • Competition
  • Standards
  • Rise

• 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
  • People
  • Going
  • Higher

• CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.

  

  Amy Ridenour
  • Health
  • Deaths
  • Cafe

• The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Self-evaluative

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

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Service
  • Missionary
  • Bars

• Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Satisfied
  • Standards
  • Settling

• 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
  • God
  • Mother
  • Hope

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