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Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Jean Toomer

A sloppy performance in a photograph is as distressing as a sloppy performance in music.

Fred Picker

The higher the love, the more demands will be made on us to conform to that ideal.

Fulton J. Sheen

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Meshell Ndegeocello

I couldn’t give you something mediocre even if that’s all you asked for.

Michelangelo

If it’s not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

Gary Yourofsky

A film that aims low should not be praised for hitting that target.

Gene Siskel

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.

Will Champion

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Heston Blumenthal

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

J. R. D. Tata

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

Haruki Murakami

Life doesn’t require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Haruki Murakami

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

George Santayana

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

Gerald Finzi

Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.

Giorgio Vasari

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

James Cash Penney

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

James Dyson

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Jane Austen

The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities

Albert Bandura

One does not have the right to criticize until he can do the same work without being criticized

Amit Abraham

If we’re going to have standards in schools, let’s be honest and have standards.

Amy Klobuchar

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Debbi Fields

If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Aimee Mann

Cynics are – beneath it all – only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Alain de Botton

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