Standards Quotes - Page 9

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.

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

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

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

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

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

Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.

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.

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

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

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is | a very smart business decision indeed.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.

I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the terrible cruelty of poverty.