Quotes About Standards

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!'

After one season, I know how well I have to play to keep playing for Manchester United.

What's the good of being civilized, that's what I'd like to know? It just means other people can break the rules and you can't.

There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Le alcanzó al lado de los fogones, donde estaba probando el relleno de carne y diciéndole a la chica que lo que estaba haciendo que tenía demasiadas especies. -¡Pero está bueno!- protestó la chica. -Puede-dijo el señor Baker-, pero hay un mundo de diferencia entre algo bueno y algo perfecto, Lorna.[...]

It's hard to be beautiful. You have an obligation to people. You almost become public property. You can lose yourself and get almost mentally disturbed on just the public nature of being beautiful. Don't think I haven't thought about it. You can get completely lost in that whole dumb mess. And anyway who's to say what's beautiful and what's ugly?

The standards should reflect the psychological conceptual models, not the physical mechanics.

Television drives me crazy sometimes because everybody is so good-looking, and yet you walk through the aisles of the grocery stores, and nobody looks like that.

Cinderella Rule #16 Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.

Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.

Feel free to aim for perfection. I like that in a commander and much prefer it to superiors who aim for perfection in their subordinates.

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

When one sees herself and her kind as the standard of perfection against which all else is measured, it is impossible to have perspective.

Being beautiful, was that for men?' 'Yes. Some women say that it is for ourselves. What on earth can we do with it? I could have loved myself whether I was hunchbacked or lame, but to be loved by others, you had to be beautiful.

Oh, Mom, what's 'normal' mean, anyway? 'Normal' is whatever we make it.

God appreciated beauty in all its forms. Flora conceded the point in theory but remained firm in the belief that her idol deserved an admirer with more rigorous standards.

No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

In the meantime, it's unfair of me to use my expectations as the standard for their behavior or hold it against them when they don't live up to my hopes.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

Professional means you have to do things according to the book. They call you Professional to limit your ability. Don't strive to be professional, but to be the best you can be

Being accused of having double standards is preferable to being convicted—due to our own refusal to act—of honoring no standards at all.

You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?