Quotes About Standards

Madrid is a club with very high demands.

You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.

A lot of films seem to go to the lowest common denominator.

I think you could turn on any channel and see a sexy guy, depending on your barometer of what sexy is.

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

Audiences deserve better.

I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

We are Bayern. We have the highest standards, and always want to win everything, so the Champions League is a very big target.

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Dad's very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going to be the target. He has said that my whole life. If you are averaging 10 goals as a midfielder, you are having a good season.

If Leander Paes can be playing in Grand Slams at 44 and Narain Karthikeyan race at 40 and be so successful at it, I see no reason why I can't play at 34. They are my motivation, as they have set targets and standards for people like us to achieve.

I was actually looking at the poster for 'Tarzan,' and I was thinking how abs look so different now. These are not your grandma's abs. They go so deep and so sharp now.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

We can lift standards of living for working families in this country. We can help small businesses create jobs. And we can have a beneficial impact on the economy as a whole if we do tax reform right.

When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns, three months of bank statements, all sorts of credit card information.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me... They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.