Quotes About Standards

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.

I find that the 'moms club' is a very, very exclusive club! It's the club of mothers who wear skinny jeans and white button-down shirts and wash their hair twice a day! I do not, and mothers who do make me feel really bad. You know who I am talking about!

I will canoodle with a dumb man, but I won't snuggle with an asshole.

Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.

Why are you still single, Ruben? Seriously. You're great with kids and close to your own family. You're gorgeous – that goes without saying – have a fairly decent job and appear to have all your teeth. What am I missing?

It does not make me ridiculous simply to be less foul than those about me.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Civilization depends on morality.

It's ugly, but is it art?

Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

If we men were required to wear sized penis stockings outside our pants, our discussions of women's breasts would be markedly less frequent and our preferences more vaguely defined.

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge I can't think about filling them.

Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate...

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

To seek perfection is to be cursed to find fault in the perfectly adequate, enjoyable, or even just plain good.

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

So then, the striking thing about the laws of the Old Testament is not that some of them are beneath the modern conscience but that they are above the other law codes of the ancient world. As

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.