Quotes About Standards

Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

You have to be impeccable - I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

No one rises to low expectations

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

You will never change what you tolerate.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

The results of your life reflect the standards you've set.

All those pseudo-Hollywood movies set nowhere, with everybody good looking and having great physique - that's not working any more.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.