Top 1200 Higher Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail. Then they get caught in a tree; you climb up and bring them down, and untangle the string; you run to get them aloft again. Finally, the kite is airborne, and it flies higher and higher, as you let out more string, until it's so high in the sky, it looks like a bird. And if the string snaps, and you've done your job right, the kite will continue to soar in the wind, all by itself.

Nothing is sadder than the consequences of having worldly standards without worldly means.

I've always had standards about writing well. There is art in this business. There is potentially great art.

Standards are like toothbrushes. Everybody wants one but nobody wants to use anybody else’s.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Morality and immorality are not defined by man's changing attitudes and social customs. They are determined by the God of the universe, whose timeless standards cannot be ignored with impunity.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.

What I find so special about acting - especially being female in this world, and growing up with such intense standards of how you should be - is that you can break those rigid models.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.

Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.

There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

I listen to music all the time, and a lot of the things I cover are the standards of my time, and they work for me.

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.

If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

We can be inspired by and renew our ancient culture of sustainable design and living. Why not set standards for producers and importers of all goods and services sold in India?

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

If Trump wants to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, the rest of the world should impose a carbon-adjustment tax on U.S. exports that do not comply with global standards.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or to be recognized in your job or to move forward in life. You should just be yourself.

I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards.

Tuition fees have formed part of a full-frontal assault on the living standards of a generation battered by a housing crisis, stagnating wages and slashed services.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

I always want to have the traditional country soul while meeting the new standards of country music.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

The latter-day robber barons are discovering that better conditions and rewards for workers pay off in a world where consumers increasingly demand ethical standards.

To be in the England squad, you have got to be playing well and your standards have got to be up there.

It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.