The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked ...
Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligation...
Nobody wakes up when they want to. Nobody did all of their reading (except maybe the crazy people who win the prizes...). We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I fe...
Happiness comes from righteous living and the development of a noble character. You can observe this by noticing that people who are truly happy are honest, unselfish, kind, responsible and have a high moral standards. On the other hand, unhappy peop...
People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
world is not destroying because the standard of living has been deteriorated, it is destroying because the standard of faith is deteriorated.
I mean every word of my divine chaos.
The gods preferring their libations diluted with rainwater and mixed with freshly cut grass.
Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own sta...
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (o...
All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
