Quotes About Standards

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.

The only glory most of us have to hope for is the glory of being normal.

Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity

The Enemy of the best is the good. If you're always settling with what's good, you'll never be the best.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

You'll never achieve 100 percent if 99 percent is okay.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.