Quotes About Standards

I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V.

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

Clearly, rules governing advertising aimed at children differ dramatically from one country to another. At the same time, multinational companies are selling their products across the globe. The need, therefore, is to evolve an international code on such advertisements.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

If you set the bar so high like in my opening season then you do have to try to maintain that.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Male beauty's better for neglect.

The most effective and efficient means of maintaining high standards of performance on a team is peer pressure. More than any policy or system, there is nothing like the fear of letting down respected teammates to motivate people to improve their performance.

It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?