Quotes About Standards

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.

We use innovative technology to facilitate standardization of services, amenities and in-room experience, thereby helping maintain service standards.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

I've never heard any guys say, 'Oh, I love her thighs.'

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Size doesn't equate to beauty. I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it?

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

Too fat, too thin, too loud, too quiet - I was never going to fit the standards others created for me. Instead of complying, I protested.

'Pretty' is most often synonymous with being thin, white, able-bodied, and cis, and the closer you are to those ideals, the more often you will be labeled pretty - and benefit from that prettiness.

Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

I just want to send the best message possible to women. And I'm just so thankful because I honestly never thought I could model. I've always been told I wasn't tall enough, I wasn't thin enough.

I don't happen to think magazines should be full of thin people. What I do say is that we can all work a little harder with what we have. It is possible to achieve a better body shape and heart rate with nutrition and exercise.

A lot of women think being thin is the way to go, but I prefer to have some meat on my bones.

You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

When I see images of a girl who is obviously far too thin, I am just as shocked as anyone else.

I feel like it's always about how this girl stays thin, or what one girl is doing to another, and it shouldn't be that way.

Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?

I began working as a model because I was born thin. I didn't become thin to be a model.