Quotes About Standards

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

At a club like Everton, we've always set our standards high.

It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.

We were right to make the case for the U.K. to negotiate a comprehensive customs union with the E.U. And we are right to argue for a strong single market deal, based on common standards, protections and regulations: the right balance of rights and obligation.

To be in the England squad, you have got to be playing well and your standards have got to be up there.

I've learnt that what you need to do is have standards that are agreed nationally and then allow people locally to work out what they need.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.

A lot of these so-called left positions are actually centrist by the standards of the American people, just not by members of the American Congress.

The reason people wear the things that they wear and accept the standards that they accept is because most athletes make a good portion of their money in advertising and doing campaigns afterwards.

How much money I demand - or don't demand - is my prerogative as an actor. However, when it comes to commercials, my outlook is different. And in that area, I do try to set certain standards, financially or otherwise.

Competitive programs such as Race to the Top provide incentives for communities to develop new solutions for old problems. Because of Race to the Top, states have raised their standards and committed to fixing schools that have persistently failed students.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

The challenges of delivering more housing so people can enjoy the benefits of home ownership and improving standards and choice in public services can also be met with a strong Conservative policy agenda.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it.

It's really frustrating when you write a show and it's really funny and someone and from Standards and Decency says, 'You can't put that in because it has a naughty word.'

Sometimes you get a team that has almost forgotten how to win. That's maybe fallen away from the standards that should be set at this level. Some are big problems, some of them are small problems.

If you don't live up to somebody's standards, you get hammered.

At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.

Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.

The thing that actually makes a guy settle down is when a woman comes along who has a different set of standards than the other women he's met. Then she immediately becomes unique.

U.K. aid spending in India is that it ensures that we are able to work with our partners to develop their markets, business and enterprise, to boost labour standards and rights and, ultimately, to boost the incomes of the poorest which, in the long term, boosts demand for British goods and services.

The Constitution sets out no standards for granting pardons. They require no consent from Congress, and courts can't second-guess them.