Top 57 Quotes About Low Standards
#1. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.
Elaine S. Dalton
#2. I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don't care how condescending that sounds, it's true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#3. We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.
Nigel Short
#4. High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others ... If you accommodate questionable practices in others who touch your organization, you risk soiling its reputation. Anybody whose hands aren't clean can get the place dirty.
Price Pritchett
#5. Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
Heidi Julavits
#6. The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#7. Bellamy took a step back. "What? And put you in charge of those as well?" He ran his finger along the bow. "No way. I'm ready to hunt." Graham snorted. "And what exactly did you hunt back on Walden except for girls with low standards and even lower self-esteem?" Bellamy
Kass Morgan
#8. Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#9. Turned out Pat had tragically low standards. Sad, but hardly a surprise.
Alex Gabriel
#10. Corruption is a result
of low standards
on local, national and global level.
My works : Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Netherlands, TILBURG,
August 17, 2016
Petra Hermans
#11. A society that lacks good people willing to speak against evil or low standards can only devolve into darkness and mediocrity.
Brendon Burchard
#12. We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.
Moby
#13. Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.
Thomas Sowell
#14. He who prides himself on giving what he thinks the public wants is often creating a fictitious demand for low standards which he will then satisfy.
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
#15. The forecast for tonight is alcohol, low standards, and poor decisions.
Laura Kreitzer
#16. Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
Jeb Bush
#17. If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.
Peter Singer
#18. Housework is a cinch, provided your standards are low enough.
Marianne Neifert
#19. I would never join a country club with standards so low as to allow me as a member.
Groucho Marx
#20. Damn it. I don't know how to be a husband, or father. But since your standards in both areas seem to be relatively low, I may have half a chance at pleasing you.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
Greg Anderson
#22. By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better.
Roger Helmer
#23. There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.
William Stafford
#24. I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
Bette Midler
#25. We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
Eric Schneiderman
#26. You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily.
'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.'
~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.
Lisa Kleypas
#27. Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
Norman Wisdom
#28. It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.
John Simon
#29. One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
Ralph Merkle
#30. Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, and their business model is going to set the standards for our children unless we do something now. Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.
Andy Stern
#31. The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for ... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in the studio with control over the balance and keep my high standards for my low notes!
Nathan East
#32. The trick to surviving with low funds is to not have such high standards.
Simon Rich
#33. Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'
Carol Bly
#34. The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.
Rush Limbaugh
#35. It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?
Jake Gyllenhaal
#36. And I realized - I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt like a privilege and not an inherent right.
Sarah J. Maas
#37. If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
Jack Kerouac
#38. A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
Marya Mannes
#39. Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#40. You have people with high standards and values as well as people with low ones no matter where you are
Amanda Lee
#41. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
#42. Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
Henry Mintzberg
#43. The same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.
Billy Graham
#44. You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
John Kricfalusi
#45. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
Donella Meadows
#46. We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
Juliette Gordon Low
#47. People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#48. Evidently you think I'm a fool who will easily succumb to flattery, or else your standards are quite low.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure
Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.
Carly Fiorina
#50. God set His standards this high so that we won't make the mistake of aiming low. He made them unreachable so that we would never have the excuse to stop growing.
Alex Harris
#51. In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
Christopher Alexander
#52. I do think the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility.
Vince McMahon
#53. I masturbate 'cause I'm the only one whose standards are low enough to f-k me.
Bo Burnham
#54. If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.
Aimee Mann
#55. Late night television is ready for someone like me ... standards have gone to an all-time low.
Howard Stern
#57. The current (educational) structure, which seeks low-cost uniformity that meets minimum standards, is killing our economy, our culture, and us.
Seth Godin
