Quotes About Standards

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

I do not want to work to correspond to an image.

I've actually always been fussy about the work I do.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

People look at kids like us and think we have no morals because we're from 'the street.' I want to show that we do live by certain standards, that we are moral people.

Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don't really feel like they did. Not everything was being filmed. Today, one huge mess-up, and millions are seeing it. There's a lot more on the line nowadays. We're so cautious and scared of messing up. It adds a lot of stress to a career.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

I am very strict on what products I want to associate myself with, and I felt that some things were just to make a buck.

I've always been quite strict when it comes to the appearance of my players. I don't want to see earrings in training, things like that.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

President Trump's critics call him an immoral lout. By strict moral standards, so are we all.

Every school, including voucher and charter schools, must be held to strict accountability standards.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

I've learnt not to expect a lot from supermodels - we've had them on 'Strictly' before and they've been horrendous.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

People strive to be models or actresses - but a lot of what you see isn't actually real. There is no perfect body. Everything is retouched.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.

The world is becoming very black and white. People are striving for perfection where only the best is acceptable. If we continue down this road, then we will lose everything that is human.

I think that the ideal of men's physiques in general, gay or straight, is one of the most under-talked-about things ever. Ninety-five percent of these bodies that we're seeing, that we're striving so hard to look like, are genetically engineered - like, let's be very clear.

When I was in L.A., the structure wasn't up to par as I wanted it to be.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.