Quotes About Standards

When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity.

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!

Our bodies are exploited so much in the media, I feel like everyone is made to feel like they're not worthy or beautiful.

I wound up going to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, which was a really life-changing experience that's still the most intense working environment I've ever been part of. Even now, as a professional actor, I've never once been held to the standards I was held to at my high school.

The brand new user interfaces that Nintendo invented often faced skeptical views before a hardware launch but wound up becoming de facto industry standards.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you're like, 'Wow, she looks so beautiful.' And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you're like, 'What's the deal with these big and baggy suits.' It's pretty ridiculous.

I guess when I was younger, I'd have assumed that in 2008 music would be full of great writers following in the tradition of the young great writers of the '60s and '70s, but it hasn't turned out that way, or at least there are no other writers around that I look at and think: 'Wow, I'm outclassed, I need to get out of this business.'

You must have anger, as rightful wrath is what makes you create your own ethical standards.

I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being.

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

Cover your ass when you're bending the rules.