Quotes About Standards

As a creative person, you never embark on something thinking it will be substandard.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

I am my biggest critic. I am never satisfied with anything.

I'm definitely not the caliber player that LeBron is, but I find it funny how people can criticize him and the way he plays the game. So it's pretty easy to criticize me if they are still able to criticize LeBron.

I know how everybody criticizes everybody else in this business.

The women in my family were worst critics.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Our customers are quality maniacs.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

The Common Core State Standards are based on the best international research. They are built on the standards used by the most effective education systems around the world, including Singapore, Finland, Canada and the U.K.

Computer systems could not work without standards - an agreement among programs and systems about how they will exchange information.

No matter how you hire, ensuring the systems are in place to manage the process will be critical in allowing you to find the right people to carry the standards you set. Don't neglect that duty!

Breast implants in pageants is not a rarity. It's definitely not taboo. It's very common.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

We need to discuss what our own standards are for games writing that falls outside of journalism, and support experimental formats and routes of production that may be more tailored to them than the status quo, because the public at large seems to still think that the only games writing that exists are reviews and news.

I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

When it came to the Hall of Fame, I've been very critical of the direction they've taken and I'd feel like a hypocrite if I just accepted this Hall of Fame while I'm so against what they're doing.

Our education system has been taken over by bean counters and narrow-mindedness.

We have spent so many years looking at images of another beauty ideal and so many years taking in magazine covers and films that represent a beauty standard that we'll never meet. People don't realize that there are makeup artists and hairstylists behind the scenes - even in something as simple as a 'candid' Instagram photo.

Nobody is perfect. So for designers then to be taking chances on curvy women and not saying, 'Oh, you have to be this size to model for us' is really opening the door.

When you are an elite talent, you cannot allow anyone that comes into your 'eliteness' and take you down. You have to make them rise to your level.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.