Standards Quotes

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

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

Have a vision. Be demanding.

Quality means conformance to requirements, not elegance.

I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

The standard of living of the average American has to decline.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

In life, you get what you tolerate.

I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of its whole population--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.

I have so much to live up to as well as live down.

Being an American is not easy. It is hard. We are required to keep some serious promises. We are judged by a high standard, ones we crafted for ourselves in the founding documents of the republic, the ones that talk about the equality of all people, the ones that tell us that government is of the people, by the people and for the people. We need to live by this, at home and abroad, and it is just about the only thing we can do to face the hatred of those who want to destroy us. Our best defense is to stay true to who we are. Our best defense is to refuse to live in fear, of them, of ourselves, of anyone.

People hold elected officials to a higher ethical standard than most others.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.

Labor is the true standard of value.

I think, with every kid I coach, I'm trying to get them to do the right thing all the time. I always feel like you should raise the bar. There needs to be expectations.

When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.

If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.