Quotes About Standards

Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

In those days [1935] I would read what the opposition papers got out, and I'd say to myself, 'What I'm doing just isn't good enough.'

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies and going, 'Oh, we see the difference - we're using a different camera.'

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.

One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be.

Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

The type of girls that would sleep with you in a heartbeat aren't the type of girls I'd want to take home anyway.

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.