Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don't have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don't have any record to beat, you can't excel. What is your current standard?
The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
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.
I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.
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.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.
The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
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...
Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.
