Quotes About Standards

Think about our workplaces, for example. Think of the privileges we may retain for ourselves while we apply other standards to those who work for us

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

90 percent of everything is crap.

I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

If you want to speak about scoring goals, you should judge every midfielder the same way.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

As a judge, I hire four law clerks each year. I look for the best.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

It's not about how high you jump. It's about how high everyone else jumps.

I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry.

Once I said to my mother: 'You would be happy if I just kept well-dressed and had good manners,' and she said: 'What else is there?'

I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.

From the time I entered the industry, I have always been clear about certain things - no short clothes, no kissing, no bikinis. Nobody comes to me with such roles. And I have no dearth of work.

If you're joining the Knicks, there's expectations that follow that; there's a lot that comes with it.

You think you've got to go out and knock someone out for it to be an impressive win. But it's kind of hard to even know what an impressive win means.

At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.

You know, the European record labels always say, 'We want 12 songs and then we want bonus songs,' and you're going, 'What for? Why?' That's not a record.