Quotes About Standards

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Don't be afraid to discard work you know isn't up to standard. Don't save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

I feel I'm really glad I don't look like the celebrities out there who are beautiful, because there are a lot of stereotypes attached to that.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Nobody can really dominate like Stephen Hendry or Steve Davis. The players are just too good for that.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Being stick skinny to the extent where you can see your bones through your skin is not a good look. You don't need to be that to be beautiful or to be perfect or to fit in. Who you are is exactly who you should be. You can't let other people dictate your life or how you feel about yourself because then you're not living.

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.

In order to grow-up, blockchains will eventually need a lot of standards that are vendor- and solutions-agnostic. So many areas are ripe for standards developments: smart contracts, tokens, security, storage, messaging, identities, naming, record-keeping, and more.

Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

I'd say 50 on men is like 33 on women in Hollywood. The standards - it's just the way we do our storytelling. And I hope it will change, because I think it's dumb.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

It is strange how little harm bad codes do.