#standards

I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or if you were good in football. ↗

— James Cameron

#certainly #environment #football #gifted #good

What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity. ↗

— Lois Capps

#alternative #creativity #develop #efficiency #energy

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#jazz #jazz record #make #record #standards

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one? ↗

— Howard Fineman

#by the time #did #like #moment #oath

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #great #great achievements #helped #innovative

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

#contributed #critical #critical role #industry #inspection

Sit your affections, your heart and your precious time out on the doorstep without so much as making him ring the doorbell first, and he’ll treat you like a doormat. Make him work a little to get next to you, and he won’t stop til you’re his. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#hard-to-get #knowing-your-worth #love #playing-hard-to-get #positive-thinking

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers. ↗

— Jim Knight

#challenging #changing #come #constantly #economic

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress. ↗

— Serge Lang

#also #community #congress #including #internally

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#conventionality #quality #repetitiveness #standards #art