#standard

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less. ↗

— Tori Amos

#anything #around #high #i #i think

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#began #directors #i #ignore #liberties

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money. ↗

— William Baldwin

#community #group #i #improve #life

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#doing #hold #matters #right #standards

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile! ↗

— Peter Asher

#different #even #made #primitive #really

When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#good #own #raised #someone #standards

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards. ↗

— John Doolittle

#membership #organization #own #private #right

I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please! ↗

— Yasmine Bleeth

#asked #bad #bad girl #been #date