People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it. — Andrew Robertson Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe,… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Fear is the strongest driving-force in competition. Not fear of one's opponent, but of the skill and high standard which he represents;… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has… — David Breeden Copy Share Image
I believe it has changed so much because of the impact you can have from that position. You are so involved in… — Eric Berry Copy Share Image
I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards,… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Issues that China Convoy nurses confronted remain relevant today: the struggle to build healthcare facilities that are sustainable and tailored to local… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The Kochs’ extensive research had shown that what the American “customer” wanted from politics, alas, was quite different from their business-dominated free-market… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Have faith that you are a daughter of Heavenly Father who loves you. Determine which of your divine gifts will allow you… — Emily Freeman Copy Share Image
Find thoughts that feel good, because it is inevitable that you are going to always be moving toward something. So why not… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
While talking about corruption, one should necessarily be concerned about the political and bureaucratic high levels. The bribe received by a traffic… — K S Venkataraman Copy Share Image
“From the pleasure podium of Ali Qapu, beyond the enhanced enclosure, the city spread itself towards the horizon. Ugly buildings are prohibited… — Christopher Kremmer Copy Share Image
“Always,’ said Evie and Max together. Points for harmony. In truth, in the six years she’d known him, Max had barely mentioned… — Mira Lyn Kelly Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes love-driven leaders from tyrants? "Great affection" coupled with the passion to see others "run at full speed towards perfection." Love-driven… — Chris Lowney Copy Share Image
“Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“He has to pay people who have a sense of humor. Since he’s lacking one,” I added, when Ethan didn’t laugh. “I… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“The term ‘political correctness’ has evolved out of the Marxist and Freudian philosophies of the 1930s to become a tool for multicultural-ism,… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
I have such high standards for myself and I will never settle for being a mediocre player. — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
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