#stand

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#get #judge #judged #leaders #out

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#bit #getting #i #just #more

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#england #fall #fans #him #i

The thing with me. I can't stick musicians. I've thought about this. I can't stand them, and being stuck in a studio with them I think that's my strength I can hear what they can't. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#being #hear #i #i can #i think

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#call #city #close #come #contempt

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. ↗

— Patti Smith

#hand #suffered #suffering #their #therefore

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me. ↗

— Robert Smith

#every #fashion #grow #hair #i

Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#boasting #duration #family #makes #merit

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. ↗

— Mary Austin

#importance #men #other #see #seeing