When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
Ayn RandTags: love people virtue value standards indiscrimantely
The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.
Ashly LorenzanaTags: individuality life freedom world difference society expression uniqueness standards revolutionary norms
I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
Adriana TrigianiTags: boys excellence standards
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
Ashly LorenzanaTags: life goals accomplishment effort performance standards superior extreme
Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
Edsger W. DijkstraTags: quality abilities standards
Standards only move in one direction. At the beginning of the world, standards were established and they've been slipping ever since.
Edward StevensonThere are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.
Jack CampbellTags: integrity honor fidelity standards
Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
Richelle MeadCynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Alain de BottonTags: cynicism idealism standards
« first previous
Page 2 of 5.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.