A Quote by Kate Winslet

I do have impossibly high standards.

Kate Winslet

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Kate Winslet
English - Actress
Born: October 5, 1975

We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

Marina Keegan

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.

Janet Mock

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

Katharine Graham

I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.

Jonathan Santlofer

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

Brandon Marshall

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.

Jane Jacobs

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Hugh Shelton

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

Carrie Lam

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

George W. Bush

I think that, because I set such high standards for myself in my first season, it became an issue of me keeping up to those standards.

Scott Sinclair

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

Rory Gallagher

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

Jonathan Raban

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

Moby

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Thomas Sowell

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Mitch Albom

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