Quotes About Standards

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

But I do remember how I felt when he said I was pretty. I was disappointed. I felt my lack. I wanted to be beautiful. Beautiful suggests gravitas, importance. Pretty is lightweight and suggests 'somewhat'. I needed him to think of me as beautiful. I felt challenged, as though he had thrown down a gauntlet.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

People with chile peppers on their chef pants shouldn't be allowed in the kitchen.

Every woman is beautiful in her own way and I don't know why people have norms and ideas on how beauty is perceived.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

I expect perfection from myself.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

I always say, 'Perfection is the flaw. It doesn't exist.' I saw something somewhere about 'porcelain pores' - you're not even allowed to have pores anymore!

I don't know why in society when a woman demands perfection she is called crazy.

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

'Main Aur Mr. Riight' is about a girl who is looking for perfection. She strives for perfection herself and is searching for a partner who is the same. The film is about her journey.

That's what I expect from the players - perfection.

Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

Perfection is our enemy... not because we don't want perfect candidates, but because perfect candidates don't exist.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?