Standards Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
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The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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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.
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The Mafia has higher standards than the Catholic Church hierachy because if their members were "raping children, they'd off them."
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Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
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Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.
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Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.
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People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.
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I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.
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My personal code of conduct and compliance with a wide range of government ethics provisions have ensured that I have maintained ethical standards.
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Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.
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What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.
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By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
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The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.
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Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.
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Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.
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It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
