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Quotes About Standards

Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.
~ Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.
~ Holly Black, Valiant
When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.
~ Edith Hamilton
While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.
~ Unknown
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
~ Anne Heche
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.
~ Honore de Balzac
Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.
~ Justina Chen
I especially want to change the way we as Latinas see our beauty. I feel that there is a misinterpretation of what we're supposed to look like.
~ Genesis Rodriguez
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
~ Oscar Wilde
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
~ Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
~ Hugh Hefner
Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players
~ Jock Stein
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
~ Jean Giraudoux
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
~ Steve Jobs
If your expectations aren't to be the best, then... you know, nobody rises to low expectations.
~ Chip Kelly
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
~ Henry Mintzberg
Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.
~ Paulo Coelho
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.
~ Asger Jorn
There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.
~ Shirley Henderson
I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Anyone who doesn't win their conference has no business playing in the national championship game.
~ Nick Saban
When you're out of quality, you're out of business.
~ Phil Crosby