Standards Quotes

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By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair"… — John Gofman
Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice… — Jimmy Carter
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming… — Ellen Key
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Senator Obama voted against Justice Breyer and Justice Roberts on the grounds that they didn't meet his ideological standards. That's not the way we should… — John McCain
I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime. — Yelawolf
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If… — Douglas Gwyn
Comparisons are odious. — Miguel de Cervantes
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing… — Stephen Jay Gould
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be… — Ambrose Bierce
moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency. — Ambrose Bierce
The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it… — Mark Twain
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. — David Lloyd George
A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted — Carly Fiorina
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion… — Michelangelo
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those… — John Dryden
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides. — William Stafford
Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. .… — Epictetus
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? — Tom Peters

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