Standards Quotes

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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. — W.C. Fields
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. — William Hague
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest… — William Hague
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. — Gary Hamel
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. — Dag Hammarskjold
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I… — Kirk Hammett
For the 'Load' album, I was experimenting so much with tone that I had to keep journals on what equipment I was using. For 'Hero… — Kirk Hammett
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. — Augustus Hare
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food… — Joanne Harris
You've got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business. — Steve Harvey
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter. — Edith Head
I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me. — Amber Heard
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that… — Brad Henry
Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many… — Peter Blair Henry
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. — Katharine Hepburn
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the… — Thor Heyerdahl
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. — S E Hinton

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