Setting Higher Standards Quotes & Sayings

Unless you're playing a historical figure, a writer or director can change their minds. And sometimes your job is to make them change their minds - to make them believe that you're the one that can do it. — Timothy Simons

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife. — Euripides

Growing up, I was such a picky eater. I'm finally starting to expand. — Mike Trout

A grumpy vampire is a homicidal vampire. Hungry ones were even worse. — MaryJanice Davidson

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor. — John Wain

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly," in the words of J. H. Holmes. "It is simply indifferent. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

So long as one assumes death as an absolute fact, one must have, as an assumed absolute value based on it, the decision either to kill or to be killed in the last extreme (and this includes attitudes to suicide and to 'natural death'). This alternative ultimately divides all people (who make that assumption about death) into two types. With a proper understanding of death, the decision (dialectic) must collapse on the laying bare of the assumption. Freud has remarked, that death is inconceivable to the Unconscious, a statement which, though open to the usual criticisms of F's mechanistic assumptions about consciousness, does point to a very important factual dialectic in assumptions about death. — Nanamoli Thera

I imagine that fish have no word for water. — Terry Pratchett

Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment. — Archibald Marwizi

Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be? — Jodi Picoult

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. — Brian Tracy

You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so. — Vincent De Paul

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable. — Jill Stein

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game. — Arian Foster