Quotes About Standards

When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

From a business standpoint, of course I'm not gonna fight someone that's unranked or something like that.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things as burdens or you look at them as blessings. From day one, I've told my staff we're going to look at it as a blessing and do everything we can to build champions.

Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.

I have always tried to play the right way, and I honestly believe for the most part the etiquette in snooker is very good. So when there are breaches, and there are, it stands out.

I have known Damian Green for over 20 years, since we were elected together in 1997. He stands out among us with the highest standards of public service, probity and integrity.

Men respect women who have standards - get some!

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.