I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.
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.
Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove. . . we still set a very high standard.
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.
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.
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.
Being a professional does not have a very high standard.
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.
I hold myself to a very high standard, and I hold my contributions to that same high standard. I will not accept any contributions that are illegal, inappropriate or tainted.
I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
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.
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.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
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 don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.
