Quotes About Standards

You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.

When we agreed to the changes in the emissions standards and the objectives for 2025 with President Obama, there was a very clear road map that was put in place that required a midterm review, which should have been completed by 2017 and '18.

There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.

There has to be active, hands-on management in concert with the manager to lead the organization and make sure that the standards that we set for the organization as a whole are being lived up to.

Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states that have no standards at all.

In a globally interdependent world, a better financial and investment system cannot be achieved on a country-by-country basis. There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain bleak.

We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before - which are considered great standards - were not good enough.

The whole purpose of CAFE standards is to make cars more efficient that people are actually buying.

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.

Integrity and being ethical is one of Affectiva's core values. This means we hold the highest standards for all we do, especially in our science and products.

The most difficult thing is to make sure the standards remain high in each restaurant.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We don't need to look like supermodels. That what really makes drag special and makes it unique and makes it queer.

My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.

When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.

What I want is a strong NHS delivering the highest standards of care anywhere in the world, and that is true to the founding values of the NHS, and I hope that, looking back on my time as health secretary, people can see that, actually, the foundations for that change were laid in the period that I was health secretary.

I am interested in creating model for the global community by using technology and creating ease of doing business, ease of living, and creating higher living standards in A.P.

I get asked constantly, what's Nintendo's approach to the esports community. And our approach is we want to enable consistent standards. We want to enable an approach to the competition that's fair, that's balanced, that enables the players to showcase their skills.

Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.

It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

My expectation levels are probably higher than what's achievable. But I have to keep pushing the standards.