Quotes About Standards

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

None of the Bollywood heroines have butts like Salma Hayek and J Lo.

There is a high cost for low living.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

My dad was very critical and had very high expectations without a lot of the details filled in. It was, 'I expect you to achieve greatness in grades, in athletics, in whatever you do.'

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

I set really high expectations.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

I think I live in the land of high expectations after playing at Connecticut.

The expectations are high, so we know: If we do not meet them, there is criticism. We have high expectations ourselves. We are not happy with fourth, third, or second, either.

At UCLA, there will always be high expectations. That's why you want to play here or coach here.

I've always been a little high maintenance. I'm, like, upper-middle-class maintenance.

People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

Along with everyone's expectations, I have high expectations for myself, personally. I hold myself to a higher standard and I think that's why I continue to get better.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

But in after days Cosmo repented of having so completely dropped the old gentleman's acquaintance; he was under obligation to him; and if a man will have to do only with the perfect, he must needs cut himself first, and go out of the world.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

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

Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

One does not say that a book 'ought not to have been published' merely because it is a bad book. After all, acres of rubbish are printed daily and no one bothers.