High Standards Quotes - Page 2

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

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

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.

I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

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 to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.

That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.

Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.