Quotes About Standards

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy standards for cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

True love does not only encompass the things that make you feel good, it also holds you to a standard of accountability.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.

They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.

Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers.

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Here's the thing, you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self but in a guy you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

You look like a normal person, if you can find a normal person who wants to look like that.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.