Quotes About Standards

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.

If I were alive in Rubens's time, I'd be celebrated as a model. Kate Moss would be used as a paint brush.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

The time has come to end social promotion in our schools.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

I don't feel I'm a diva in any way, but, like, I just can't bring myself to reuse eyelashes. I think it's gross. And so I only use them one time. Is that bad? I feel like it's bad!

There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.

The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity of style, perfection of imagery, truth to nature, clearness of statement, humanly possible situations, humanly possible people, fluent narrative, connected sequence of events

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

The problem with making heroes out of humans is that when they eventually act like humans, everyone is disappointed.

Principalmente, declarou, "desejava o estabelecimento universal dos padrões mínimos de vida e de trabalho para todos e sua progressiva elevação à medida que o aumento da produção permitisse".

The hardest question for anyone who takes responsibility for what he or she does is, What if I turn out to be average?

What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters—looks, money, tennis—we would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.

I get a feeling that American standards are sort of an unspoken norm, and that whether one resists them, or whether one adopts them, they are there to be reckoned with

As I sat on the midnight PVTA bus to Amherst, I scanned the male faces, looking for a potential boyfriend. My standards were high: anyone who looked back at me.