Top 1200 Raise Your Standards Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

They have also been adopting fuel efficiency standards for automobiles in China.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

You want to score runs at the highest average you can. That's what motivates you to keep driving the standards.

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Football's about winning and I'm a winner, but you also have to set standards and entertain people.

Cultural standards evolve. The meaning of the public interest also, of course, evolves.

I do not raise brats!

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

We created a way of raising standards of living that we can't possibly pass on to our children.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

We very clearly do not want an authoritarian regime... setting standards in the world marketplace.

My grandmother, who picked cotton, and my mom, who picked cotton as a child - my grandmother had a work ethic. She had 13 children that she had to raise and ended up for a time moving into the projects, but because my grandmother had a work ethic, she didn't stay in the projects... that's not how she wanted to raise her children.

It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.

You asked me my favorite question: What happened and what did you learn from being under contract to MGM? And the answer is I know how to make movies. I understand how to do that. I've been doing that my whole life. It's just easier to raise the money yourself and then hire yourself. It's possible if you reduce your own budget a little.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

I never raise my voice!

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.

The prison system in Norway is fairly civilized, by world standards, and so are the prisoners and the guards.

[It] would allow citizens to set their own standards for the permissible use of force.

Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.

My songs lie somewhere in between the evergreen standards, rock n' roll and pop.

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

If you're a Texas Supreme Court Justice hopscotching across 254 counties, trying to tattoo your name onto the noggins of millions of voters, you must find creative ways to raise visibility and build awareness. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are low-cost but high-yield ways to leverage the support of key influencers and opinion leaders.

Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.

Success isn't about reaching your goals; it's about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It's that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.

Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One, they can't read. And two, they witnessed violence or were victims of violence as a child. You would think that if you had seen your mother get beaten when you were 10 years old, you'd never raise your hand to a woman. Not true. The prospect that you will increases dramatically if you witness violence. So it's so much bigger than just about women. It's about our society. It's about our culture. It's about who the hell we are.

We should forcefully call out China whenever it violates international standards.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new thing. It's happened a lot in sort of big budget comedies in the past decade or so. But people have pointed out to us that we're doing a bromance, so to speak, but doing it in a different way that's even more authentic and real and sincere.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

There is a lot of pressure on pop stars, and I think a lot of it is the pressure that we put on ourselves. In our minds, we build up these huge, huge standards that we think people want from us, and actually, when you break it down, people just want you to make music and perform to the best of your ability, but anxiety can stop you from doing that.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work.

No longer are there immutable standards by which to judge ourselves. Image has overtaken reality.

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

My dad always had very high standards for me, from day one.

I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.

How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

The satisfactions people derive from what they do are determined to a large degree by their self-evaluative standards