Quotes About Standards

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so.

You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

If you require perfection, you never will

She had, or might have had, many suitors in her own rank of life, but scornfully repulsed or rejected them all; for none but a gentleman could please her refined taste, and none but a rich one could satisfy her soaring ambition.

The young Winston Churchill used to stand in the doorway of a ballroom, rating female looks on the Helen of Troy basis: 'Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?' he would ask a friend standing with him, receiving in answer a murmured: 'Two hundred ships?' as a young woman passed. 'By no means,' Winston would respond. 'A covered sampan or a small gunboat at most.

It is worth noting that the standard American tests of success that they have flunked are almost exclusively economic. If one applied social indices instead—such as rates of crime, child abuse, illegitimacy, and divorce—the Hmong would probably score better than most refugee groups (and also better than most Americans), but those are not the forms of success to which our culture assigns its highest priority.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

By the end I was deteriorating faster than I could lower my standards.

She would have been gorgeous if someone had thrown her into a waterfall and held her there for half an hour

every social problem is observed in relation to 'norms' which in fact never existed, people

it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

You weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. -

The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing.

We hire for perfect, we manage for perfect, we measure for perfect, and we reward for perfect. So why are we surprised that people spend their precious minutes of self-directed, focused work time trying to achieve perfect? The problem is simple: Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. Rough

The web has made kicking ass easier to achieve, and mediocrity harder to sustain. Mediocrity now howls in protest." The

It's not an accident that school is like a job, not an accident that there are supervisors and rules and tests and quality control. You do well, you get another job (the next grade), and continue to do well and you get a real job. Do poorly, don't fit in, rebel—and you are kicked out of the system.

More fashion = less need for quality