Quotes About Standards

Drukheid als Alibi voor Productiviteit: Bij afwezigheid van duidelijke maatstaven voor de productiviteit en de waarde in hun werk keren veel kenniswerkers terug naar een industrieel ijkpunt voor productiviteit: veel dingen heel zichtbaar doen.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

El gran peligro de la mediocridad es que es soportable.

Lo bueno es enemigo de lo extraordinario".

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

One is in the cultural taboo against rounded bellies. Fashion dictates that both men and women must have flat bellies. The gaunt fashion-model look still has power over certain segments of the population, as does the ramrod-straight military-inspired look for men.

You're just begging for a piece of me, you know that?" she growled. "I don't know what gave you the idea I've lowered my standards, but I assure you, I haven't. I want no part of you.

Beautiful boys dated beautiful girls. That's how the world worked. And yes, by those rules, I was destined to be with a lanky lover with a tragic past. Wonderful.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

The maintenance of high standards of behavior in nonviolent action is necessary at all stages of the conflict.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness — as might be judged by certain standards — there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

The pictures in the magazines almost put me off my job completely. I've always hated those color photographs of naked women in those stupid positions that are supposed to turn men on. I never felt that there was anything sexy about them.

the company may be saying "state-of-the-art" when the pragmatist wants to hear "industry standard.

El único defecto de los escritores realmente buenos es que casi siempre ocasionan que haya muchos malos o regulares.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Freshman year, kissing and deep French kissing. Then sophomore year, I'd want to be making out with her. By sixteen we should be having oral sex, and by seventeen or eighteen, full frontal sex. Of course, it could go faster than that, but basically, he said, that was the standard progression. Before I finished high school, I should be having full frontal sex with her.

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues...but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.