Standards Quotes - Page 6

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?

Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.