Quotes About Standards

You cannot be completely nice. It's impossible. Who is it? Who is the perfect guy? Show him to me! It doesn't exist. And thank god.

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Good enough is never good enough.

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

If it's good enough for beagles, it's good enough for me.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?

In art, the best is good enough.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

If you aren't really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'