Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Olivia Newton-John

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.

Olivia Wilde

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

Marcus Giles

You've got to set high standards for yourself.

Kevin Shelley

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.

Rio Ferdinand

I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Josie Maran

I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

Venus Williams

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

Alexandra Adornetto

I'm afraid that's inappropriate behavior for the schoolyard," Xavier teased. "I know my charm is hard to resist, but please tray and control yourself.

Anatole Broyard

There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.

Lauren Oliver

I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

Helen Hunt

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Gilbert Gottfried

I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

Jennifer Lawrence

Being inappropriate comes easy to me.

Leslie Easterbrook

I can be inappropriate at times.

Will Ferrell

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

Theodor Mommsen

An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.

Tom Lehman

I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance.

Brian Eno

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Elizabeth Thornton

The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

Kathy Baker

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

Kangna Ranaut

I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

Janis Ian

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Gretchen Rubin

When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.