Quotes with standard

  • Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
  • When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
  • I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
  • A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
  • There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
  • To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
  • What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
  • You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.
  • An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Hugh Blair The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Brandi Carlile 'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Bill Dedman 'J'eet jet?' is still the standard way for a Pittsburgher to ask if you're ready for a meal, but the meal itself is no longer limited to chipped ham and an Iron City beer.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Burnie Burns 'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Edmund Burke A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ben Bernanke 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.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Burton Richter As accelerators reach higher and higher energies, we may need a new Standard Model, or, at least, today's may need to be modified, but that's the way science operates.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Myriam Miedzian As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
    Myriam Miedzian
    American philosopher and author
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  • Theodore Parker As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Johnson Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup 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
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Demick Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Carl Hagelin Growing up in Europe, tight clothing is pretty standard. When I got to college, clothes were loose, so I was going toward more loose stuff. As soon as I got back to New York, I started wearing suits 25% of the year. Then, I realized how important it is for the suit to really fit you and be tight.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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