High standards Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare High standards Idealist Pessimism Standards
“Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We can't win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game . . . we've got to play a good game. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few… — Randy West 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 high standards,… — Edgar Meyer Copy Share Image
If you can't be honest or don't have integrity, then you won't have a high standards without good discipline. — Wazim Shaw 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
Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10,… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Those things that are basically foundational - hard work, high standards, playing for your teammates, putting the team first - those things are ingrained… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
