Quotes About Standards

We might have been friends, if you had had a slightly lower set of standards, if your judgements of people had been less unkind, less critical; if that outer layer of pride had not been so prickly, so impenetrable.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.

Between the ages of 15 and 25 a woman reaches her maximum attractiveness.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

We would consider the nearly twelve-year-old a child. By the standards of Elizabeth's day, twelve marked the beginning of the end of childhood for most females, but particularly for female slaves whose status as property made the designation "child" short-lived.

CUDOS stands for Communism (data belong to the group), Universalism (apply uniform standards to claims and evidence, regardless of where they came from), Disinterestedness (vigilance against potential conflicts that can influence the group's evaluation), and Organized Skepticism (discussion among the group to encourage engagement and dissent).

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.

In an increasingly complex world, with courseloads becoming heavier and heavier, shouldn't we be opting for more accountability when it comes to our professors, not less?

Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

I'm competing against men who are doing five quads between the short program and the long program, and I'm at three between the two programs. Who would ever imagine that three wasn't enough for some people?

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

There is a pressure on actresses to look in a certain way. Like, when I have to go out for promotion or interviews, I have to choose designer wear.

I don't have the proportions for 'hood hot.'

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.

Well, we have to provide the world's best schools. We certainly don't have them, but that's our objective.

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right.

I can quite understand that many people may be depressed by the spectacle of naked humanity. Personally I cannot see that an ugly body is any more offensive than an ugly dress.