Quotes About Standards

We are living in a world where image is important and we feel the need to confirm to a standard of what beauty is and how beauty should look like. We look at the billboard, and feel something is lacking in us.

I wouldn't be doing my job, or holding myself to that standard that I see fit, if I just shut my mouth and played the game.

Every constitutional standard is engaged in difficult but important line-drawing.

In 2020, I want to set a standard where I'm only fighting the best guys.

You're judged on Super Bowls, and that's the standard.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

If you look at women in sports, they generally have to be more qualified because it is kind of a man's world. Guys will give guys a lot more breaks than a woman. I'd argue that women make fewer mistakes and are held to a higher standard. I think the ultimate respect you can pay to a woman in my business is you're my equal.

You should shoot for high standards, and believe they're obtainable.

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

I do have impossibly high standards.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.

Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assuming that journalism has the truth. The memoir gives you more scope, is more poetic, and allows you to play around with your own life.

I've always held myself to high standards.

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.

Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.