Exacting Quotes
On holding yourself, and others, to a higher standard.
Being exacting shows up in strange places here, in self-judgment, in fictional characters held to impossible codes, and in music's tales of women exacting sweet revenge. This set of quotes looks at what it costs to demand so much.
Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exacting sweet revenge on the men who done them wrong.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
Art Quotes
Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about...
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There's a warning too: chasing exacting plans and driving ambition can turn even a spiritual search stressful. These reflections sit well alongside Bad habits readers form when judging others too harshly.
