Standards Quotes - Page 27

• There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Important, Quality

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• We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Gun, People

  Republican Presidential Debate, transcripts.cnn.com. June 5, 2007.

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• Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Dream, Believe, Expectations

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• No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Judging

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• I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

  Dale Carnegie

  Believe, Worry, Secret

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• I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

  Billy Sheehan

  Unique, Style, Musician

  "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Support, Tools, Cad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Destiny, Individuality, Tomorrow

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• If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

  Tony Robbins

  Want, Changing Your Life, Raises

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• People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

  Mizuki Nomura

  People, Appreciate, Judging

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• Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Risk, Management, Should

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• It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

  David Breeden

  Attitude, Long, Important

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• Living in the midst of abundance we have the greatest difficulty in seeing that the supply of natural wealth is limited and that the constant increase of population is destined to reduce the American standard of living unless we deal more sanely with our resources.

  Wallace Carothers

  Mother, Earth, Population

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• The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that employed by more conventional investors. We disagree. We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk if it raises, as it should, both the intensity with which an investor thinks about a business and the comfort-level he must feel with its economic characteristics before buying into it.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 1, 1994.

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• I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

  Bridget Fonda

  Mean, Parent, Nasty

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• We have played a critical role in meeting the new safety standards. The Canadian space industry contributed new tools that make the inspection of the space shuttle possible.

  Marc Garneau

  Space, Safety, Roles

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• Tom Coburn never forgot that members of Congress are spending the hard-earned money of the people back home. Even a lot of conservatives end up forgetting that. Here's hoping that back in the private sector, Tom Coburn keeps up the fight for his beliefs and that he remains a constant reminder to lawmakers and the White House of ethical standards to which all should aspire.

  John Fund

  Home, Fighting, White

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• We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Communist Leaders, Down And

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. It is a heavenly banner; it is to all those who are privileged with the sweets of liberty, like the cooling shades and refreshing waters of a great rock in a thirsty and weary land. It is like a great tree under whose branches men from every clime can be shielded from the burning rays of the sun.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Sweet, Freedom, Men

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• 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.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Greatness, Simplicity

  Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace: Designed to be Read as a Modern Novel”

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• Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Judging, Don't Judge Me

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.176, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we have to reduce this natural substance, reduce the American standard of living, to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in Earth.

  Michele Bachmann

  Environmental, Arbitrary, Substance

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• I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Strong, Dad

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• I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

  Phil McGraw

  Children, Thinking, Parent

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 26, 2004.

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• The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Integrity, Motherhood, Men

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