Quotes About Standards

Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

If you decide to live a pure life, don't expect the world to understand your decision.

The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain.

She would have been considered a beauty in any period of history other than the early twenty-first century, when the only acceptable shape for a beautiful woman was that of a hungry six-year-old who had inexplicably grown solid apple-shaped tits out of her shoulder blades.

I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.

If it looks like computer graphics, it is not good computer graphics.

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

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

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

just as Soviet managers responded by producing shoddy goods that met the numerical targets set by their overlords, so do schools, police forces, and businesses find ways of fulfilling quotas with shoddy goods of their own:

Accountability ought to mean being held responsible for one's actions. But by a sort of linguistic sleight of hand, accountability has come to mean demonstrating success through standardized measurement, as if only that which can be counted really counts.

Thus, there is a gap between the measureable contribution and the actual, total contribution of the agent. As a result, measured performance (such as an increase in the division's profits or a rise in the company's stock price) may actually lead to the organization getting less of what it really needs from its employees. Moreover, there was an inevitable distortion of incentives created by the quest for simple, quantifiable standards by which to measure and reward performance

Improving numbers by lowering standards. One way of improving metric scores is by lowering the criteria for scoring. Thus, for example, graduation rates of high schools and colleges can be increased by lowering the standards for passing. Or airlines improve their on-time performance by increasing the scheduled flying time of their flights.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

Perfection cannot be attained for as humans we all have a different opinion of what perfection is

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

Price of Beauty