Quotes and Sayings About Standards

Labor is the true standard of value.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Hard Work #Standards #Labor

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.
-- Aimee Mann

#Lows #Process #Standards

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
-- Alan Bennett

#Computer #Standards

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
-- Alan Paton

#Standards

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Bones #Standards

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
-- Algernon Blackwood

#Reality #Proof #Standards

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.
-- Alice Neel

#Art #Grateful #Standards

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.
-- Allison Mackie

#Love Is #Universal Love #Standards

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.
-- Amber Heard

#Gone #Rebellious #Standards

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Quality #Morality #Standards

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
-- Andreas Moritz

#Cancer #Treatment #Standards

Perfection is the lowest standard of achievement. Doing is the highest.
-- Andy Jenkins

#Perfection #Achievement #Standards

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.
-- Andy Summers

#Cutting #Standards #Cutting Edge

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
-- Aristotle

#Praise #Standards #Higher Standards

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.
-- Barbara Goldsmith

#Reality #Judging #Standards

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
-- Barbara Mikulski

#Double Standard #Coming Out #Standards

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
-- Barney Kessel

#Excellence #Life Experience #Standards

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
-- Ben Bernanke

#People #Gold #Standards

The rotten apple spoils his companion.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Apples #Rotten #Standards

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
-- Bette Midler

#Lows #Standards

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.
-- Bill Hayden

#Linux #Standards

The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.
-- Bill Joy

#Definitions #Standards #Computing

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose
-- Billy Corgan

#Judging #Standards

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries
-- Bjarne Stroustrup

#Library #Tools #Standards

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.
-- Bonnie Hunt

#Failing #Form #Standards

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
-- Brian Aldiss

#Important #Shapes #Standards

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
-- Brian Tracy

#Excellent #Standards #Higher

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Easy #Standards

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Standards #Stills

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.
-- Charles Goodyear

#Dollars #Should #Standards