If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life… — Chronixx Copy Share Image
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all… — Charles James Copy Share Image
It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know… — Vanessa Mae Copy Share Image
Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. — John Sununu Copy Share Image
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
The public owns the airwaves; Congress gave them to broadcasters for free, with the understanding that they would serve the public interest… — Reed Hundt Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in… — Plato Copy Share Image
The heroes and discoverers have found true more than was previously believed, only when they were expecting and dreaming of something more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable… — Charles Sheldon Copy Share Image
The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task,… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season. — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
If your standards include mutual respect, shared values, and common ground in a relationship, keep them high. — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
“Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.” — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] — Horace Copy Share Image
People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our… — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
The time has come for humanity to hoist the standard of the oneness of the human world, so that dogmatic formulas and… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“Standards are just the most accepted ways of doing things. They're usually unquestioned, not challenged, not the most efficient, and not the… — Rick Otton Copy Share Image
I always prefer to save up and have a four- or five-star holiday rather than take lots of little breaks where the… — June Whitfield Copy Share Image
I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
Not only do I believe that it is possible to maintain moral standards without the crutch of religion but I would argue… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image