Standards Quotes

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

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

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.