Standards Quotes · Page 22

Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

— Anonymous

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

— Brett Dennen

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

— Seth Godin

I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.

— Kim Woo-bin

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

— Sarah Dessen

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— William Stafford

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

— Winston Churchill

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards…

— Adriana Trigiani

Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver. For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set…

— Sujit Lalwani

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like…

— John Layfield

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

— Grimes

The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto…

— Satoru Iwata

When you lose for the All Blacks it's not a nice feeling. Expectations on us are pretty high. We have high standards…

— Beauden Barrett

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.

— Lou Holtz

“If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?”

— Tiffany Madison

When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I…

— Russ Feingold

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were…

— Mark Hamill

In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my…

— Bernie Sanders

The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules…

— John Yoo

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in…

— Michelle Obama

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of…

— Newt Gingrich

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living…

— Thomas Sowell

Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes…

— Jack Johnson

All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against…

— George Orwell

It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more…

— Paul Volcker

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.…

— Lewis Carroll

Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth:…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my…

— Sylvia Plath

Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing…

— Alice Miller

You are never going to have, in a country as rich as ours [the USA], that borders a country as poor as…

— Ezra Klein

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

— Hillary Clinton

Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

— Mikhail Turovsky

The game is not fun to me when I'm not playing up to my standards.

— Chipper Jones

I looked up 'standard' in the dictionary. There are eleven different definitions.

— Dave Winer

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

— Bill Vaughan

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

— Brian Aldiss

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

— Brian Tracy