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The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
When a new manager comes in, you have to prove yourself all over again. That's what you have to do every day and keep your standards high.
Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
I can do both of the things I love, which is raise awareness for TSS and work as a model to help change beauty standards. It was a win-win.
I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.
Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.
I've learnt that what you need to do is have standards that are agreed nationally and then allow people locally to work out what they need.
My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm pretty versatile.
I always prefer to save up and have a four- or five-star holiday rather than take lots of little breaks where the standards aren't so high.
One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
The country has double standards - it's obsessed with fair skin on one hand, but if the woman is white, she is expected to be loose-moraled.
I don't think the rating system places too much pressure on chefs. I prefer to put the pressure on my chefs to perform to the top standards.
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
As we develop the moral aspect of our lives, we often adapt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for our conduct.
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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.
Lower standards tell students that they don't need to work hard and leave more high school students unprepared for college and the workplace.
Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.
I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.
All the education programmes provided by our foundations are in pursuit of a common vision to upgrade education standards and quality of life.
The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.
The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.
True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.
I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
Don't focus on your body. Love it, but know it'll never be up to society's standards because it's all Photoshop and exclusivity. And that's okay!
What Trump is doing is a lot more than just talking, tweets. He is rolling back regulations, standards, destroying lives. This has to be stopped.
Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
People think jazz music is all standards and the Great American Songbook. But it's really about the sensibility, the feel you bring to the music.
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.
If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.
My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.
We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards.
The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.