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Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth. By Zhuangzi Things Standard Set Man Standards

Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money. By Pete Savage Standards Crumb Work End Accepting

I realized if I didn't have a standard for something I would fall for anything. By Laverne M. Ballard Realized Standard Fall

development of data standards, By Anonymous Development Standards Data

We make no apologies for setting high standards. By Nancy L. Zimpher Standards Make Apologies Setting High

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. By Irving Babbitt Standards Criticism Discipline Existing Conditions

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them. By Bette Midler Standards Low

I believe in the single standard for men and women. By Mae West Women Single Standard Men

Live by your own sacred standard. By Lailah Gifty Akita Live Standard Sacred

Indian standards of artistry, and Indian standards of humanity, and Indian standards of love, and of family, devotion, commitment, stand for me as the standard for how one should behave. By Clark Blaise Indian Standards Devotion Commitment Artistry

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. By Jean Toomer Acceptance Standards Prevailing

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. By William Hague Truth Discipline Afraid Speak Common

Standards of beauty describe in precise terms the relationship that an individual will have to her own body. They prescribe her mobility, spontaneity, posture, gait, the uses to which she can use her body. They define precisely the dimension of her physical freedom and psychological development, intellectual possibility, and creative potential is an umbilical one. By Andrea Dworkin Body Standards Beauty Describe Precise

Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally. By Winston Churchill Rally Set Standard Brave Loyal

Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard? By Israelmore Ayivor Beat Excellence Day Beating Standard

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect. By Jonathan Kellerman Pompous Expect Sounding Feel Set

Don't tolerate any form of average. Don't accept Dis-excellence. Don't stand for mediocre. If you're going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best. By Robin Sharma Average Disexcellence Tolerate Form Settle

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them. By Warren Buffett Field Standards Apply Interpret Evaluating

Dedication to quality, community, and originality without exception. By Zach Klein Community Dedication Quality Exception Originality

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work. By Andy Summers Standards Playing Work Cutting Edge

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience By J.r.d. Tata Hallmark Cleanliness Conscience Perfect Standards

Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. By Joseph M. Juran Action Standard Logical Basis Making

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. By Leo Tolstoy Christ Standard Rule Wrong Goodness

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses. By Elsie De Wolfe Times Accept Standards Adapt

Standards only move in one direction. At the beginning of the world, standards were established and they've been slipping ever since. By Edward Stevenson Standards Direction Move World Beginning

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. By Greg Anderson Love Creativity Life Wisdom High

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. By Frederick E. Crane Individuality Reverse Mark Genius Mediocrity

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. By Habeeb Akande Standards Losing

We were the standard, the hope, and the law. By J.j. Mcavoy Standard Hope Law

Convention is the ruler of all. By Pindar Convention Ruler

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to. By Haruki Murakami Paper Marathon Runs Lengths Toilet

what is truly respectable, but what is respected. By Anonymous Respectable Respected

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours. By Pat Paulsen Standards Upped

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard. By Dag Hammarskjold Praise Standard Critics

High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others ... If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty. By Price Pritchett High Excellence Standards Personal Organizational

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers. By Andy Hargreaves Flexibility Teachers Standards Standardization Force

The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others. By C.s. Lewis Real Standard Measures Morality People

What could possibly make you think I have any standards left when it comes to you? By Cassandra Clare Possibly Make Standards Left

One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. Worldly standards will always be in a state of flux. The only true and unchanging standards are those set by the Savior and His teachings of the restored gospel. By Donald L. Staheli Offers Greatest Challenges Learn Live

Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. By Taiichi Ohno Standards Forced Set Production Workers

We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game ... we've got to play a good game. By Price Pritchett Game Good Win Struggle High

very high standard, again, involves the possession of rare virtues, and rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. People divide off vice and virtue as though they were two things, neither of which had with it anything of the other. This is not so. There is no useful virtue which has not some alloy of vice, and hardly any vice, if any, which carries not with it a little dash of virtue; virtue and vice are like life and death, or mind and matter - things which cannot exist without being qualified by their opposite. The most By Samuel Butler Rare Virtue Vice Things Standard

Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. By Rush Limbaugh Standards Matter Obama Declining Left

Compromise - Lowering my standards. So you can meet them. By Anita Liberty Compromise Lowering Standards Meet

People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true. By Kirk Cameron People True Adopt Standards Standard

I do think that television, in its early years, played a significant role in that standard-setting, enforcing a certain decency among people. They took their role seriously, and the people behind the camera took their role seriously, too. By John Seabrook Role Television Years Played Standardsetting

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? By Tom Peters Demand Set High Standards Past

My own standards that I'll hold myself to is if the product that I'm making feels honest and it feels like I didn't compromise and it just came from an honest, correct place. By Neill Blomkamp Feels Honest Correct Place Standards

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last. By Tim Berners-Lee Professionalism Makes Sense Talk Professional

My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing? By Rachel Bloom Girls Arrested Development Shows Groundbreaking

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs By Masato Excellence Achievement Designs Greater Standard

Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre. By Jeffrey Zeldman Industry Number Slowly Motion Standards

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence By Fela Durotoye Excellence Redefine World Class Standards

All boundaries are conventions. By David Mitchell Conventions Boundaries

Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways By Franz Boas Modesty Good Manners Courtesy Ethical

I'm not looking to set a standard ... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work. By Talib Kweli Standard Set Work Offered Challenge

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself. By Abraham Lincoln Standard Principle Fixed

I do have impossibly high standards. By Kate Winslet Standards Impossibly High

Excellence is going the extra mile. By Joyce Meyer Excellence Mile Extra

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves. By Gordon Gee Make Set High Standard

Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die By Gary Hirshberg Quality Waver Afford Compromise Die

We must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition By Winston S. Churchill Oposition Standards Determined Gentlemen

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan. By Lisa Kleypas Standards Sebastian Fault Lord Vincent

Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ... By Ellen Key Conventionality Reality Form Content Tacit

Mediocrity is already a high standard. By Marty Rubin Mediocrity Standard High

The mind's the standard of the man. By Alan Watts Man Mind Standard

Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing. By Aja Naomi King Thing High Standards

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. By Alvar Aalto Standardisation Nature Cells Units Committee

Every time you see a problem and walk away from it, you set a new standard. By Ilona Andrews Standard Time Problem Walk Set

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value. By Cavett Robert Quality Service Cleanliness

If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court. By Daphne Oz Expectations Behavior Standards Put Court

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard. By Edward Tufte Democratic Designers Great Design Standard

To conform is to be average. By Manoj Vaz Average Conform

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. By Thorstein Veblen Community Indefinite Conventional Wealth Order

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. By Sidney Poitier Actor Standard Set

Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered. By William Dean Howells Ideals Natural Remember Greatness Beauty

The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. Ruth Swain in History of the Rain By Niall Williams Impossible Standard Basis Matter Hard

You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself. By Bryant Mcgill Treat Regard Set Standard People

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself. By Olivia Newton-John Expect Standards High

If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard. By Radhanath Swami Standard Leader Engages Sinful Activity

Quality is what is popular a hundred years later. By Marty Rubin Quality Popular Hundred Years

Successful innovations become conventions. By Mason Cooley Successful Conventions Innovations

The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard. By Niall Williams Standard Impossible Philosophy Basis Matter

My yardstick is how somebody treats me. By Truman Capote Yardstick Treats

They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can't get it. By Thomas Keller Standards Communicate Reason

The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it. By Shamcey Supsup Definite Standard Beauty Define

One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards ... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art. By Leo Steinberg Standards Art Cope Provocations Rest

It's a Chomper standard. - Otto Ray By Monet Polny Chomper Standard Otto Ray

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. By John Wanamaker Standards Higher Day Raise

The best is a matter of standards - and I set my own standards. By Ayn Rand Standards Matter Set

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you're good, you'll reset that expectation again By Seth Godin Spec Excellence Meeting Setting Minute

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. By Dick Costolo Bar Measurement Rare Raise Create

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards. By Irving Babbitt Standards America Suffers Lack Infrequently

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend. By Olivia Wilde Food Love Life Work Relationships

We don't settle for anything less than excellence. By Steve Jobs Excellence Settle

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. By Christopher Alexander Architect Professionals Severely Low Life

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. By Tori Amos People Standard High Accept

People mistake their limitations for high standards. By Jean Toomer People Standards Mistake Limitations High

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. By Jane Alexander Arts High Standards Excellence

We must judge ourselves by a higher standard than effectiveness, the standard called faithfulness. By Parker J. Palmer Effectiveness Faithfulness Standard Judge Higher