Quotes About Standards

obsessão pelo cliente; simplicidade; propensão à ação; propriedade; e padrões elevados de talento.

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity.

We are destroying all esthetic standards in the name of social justice.

Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left.

Thus, a leader's task is to develop their subordinates' will along with their skill. This begins with realistic training with consistent standards.

A leader should surround himself with persons who fit his requirements and standards—and then turn them loose to do their jobs.

The scholastic level of that school down the street, Atticus, couldn't be any lower and you know it.

They drew up her bosom to giddy heights, pinched in her waist, flared out her rear, and managed to suggest that Alexandra's had once been an hourglass figure.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, she always has imperfections, and likewise no matter how ugly a woman might be, there's always a part of her that is beautiful.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Regardless of the fact that he was beautiful, and should have had every advantage because of it, the world was not right for my brother. There was some standard by which he measured everyone, all human activity, without articulating it or giving us any clue where we were going wrong. He was silent and furious nearly all the time. Girls were crazy about him.

Call me old-fashioned, but I did read in Glamour that one's shorts should always be longer than one's vagina.

I keep telling you, nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park in a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards. Only by such rude awakenings can we be led to dwell in a place where we are less cramped, less hindered by the ever-insistent External. Only then do we discover a new capacity and appreciation of goodness and beauty and truth.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.

When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

We've always gone to other countries where there's been different standards and different practices you have to adhere to. WWE is like any other company, a global company.