Standards Quotes · Page 99

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique…

— Billy Sheehan

Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does…

— Michael Josephson

The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others…

— Lance Morrow

The Standard ... is the standard.

— Mike Tomlin

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.…

— James Gleick

I had utterly abandoned myself to Him. Could any choice be as wonderful as His will? Could any place be safer than…

— V. Raymond Edman

I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a…

— Edward Snowden

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

— Samuel Johnson

An aggressive building performance standard for all new buildings, and a set of performance requirements to be met by all buildings before…

— Denis Hayes

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his…

— Ruth Benedict

I go into every meeting, into every room and for every speech understanding the standard deviation, the Bell Curve. I know there…

— Simon Sinek

Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states…

— Brad Schneider

I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of…

— Tara Brach

When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes…

— Ayn Rand

The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to…

— Neal Ascherson

[Professional accountants ] should be encouraging companies to enhance their green credentials by switching to renewables, and to respect core labor standards…

— Kofi Annan

In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much…

— Charlie Munger

Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a…

— J.R. Ward

Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards.

— Paul Polman

By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right…

— D. Todd Christofferson

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a…

— Marion Nestle

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on…

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

The key benefits of a Special Purpose National Bank Charter are uniform regulations, standards, supervision, and authority for emerging financial technology companies…

— Perianne Boring