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High Standards Quotes

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I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.
Dan Gable

Authors on High Standards Quotes: Josie Maran Marva Collins Nancy L. Zimpher R. Buckminster Fuller John Wooden Stefan Molyneux Brian Tracy Kevin Shelley Tom Peters Alain de Botton Marya Mannes Katharine Hepburn Venus Williams Patrice Motsepe Joseph Epstein Stephanie Rice Brandon Marshall Jay Leno Tiki Barber Chrissie Hynde Kurt Loder Marcus Giles Sam Mendes Pratibha Patil Ryan Kwanten Yair Lapid Jim Evans Shai Agassi Chronixx George Blake Temple Grandin Dan Gable Jonathan Santlofer
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What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
Marva Collins

All excellent educators share a common trait of mandating lofty expectations for their pupils and not being content with mediocrity.
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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.
Chronixx

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Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society.
Pratibha Patil

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One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
Patrice Motsepe

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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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We make no apologies for setting high standards.
Nancy L. Zimpher

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Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.
Katharine Hepburn

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People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
Temple Grandin

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We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.
Jens Stoltenberg

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Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague

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

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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.
Stefan Molyneux

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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.
R. C. Sproul

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Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
Brian Tracy

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I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.
Shai Agassi

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

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You've got to set high standards for yourself.
Marcus Giles

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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
Tom Peters

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Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million. We have one of the world's top high-tech industries and a high standard of living. There is only one thing we haven't achieved: Making the country safer for Jews.
Yair Lapid

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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.
Ellen G. White

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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.
Sam Mendes

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

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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.
Kevin Shelley

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You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
Tiki Barber

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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.
Chrissie Hynde

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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
Kurt Loder

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It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured.
Frank Sinatra

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I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.
Scott Eastwood

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It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.
George Blake

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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
Joseph Epstein

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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.
Jim Evans

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There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
John Wooden

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

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

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Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.
Brandon Marshall

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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.
Stephanie Rice

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Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.
Jay Leno

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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
Marya Mannes

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I'm really shallow when I come to guys. I only date really good-looking, well-endowed guys, with great bodies. My friends are always going on at me. I'm like. 'I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!'
Josie Maran

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I have very high standards for myself and my career.
Ryan Kwanten

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

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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen

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As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.
Richard G. Scott

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While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.
Joel Makower

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Being a professional does not have a very high standard.
Terry Bozzio

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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.
Jonathan Santlofer

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And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.
Brian Henson

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That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.
John Dos Passos

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Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Deepak Chopra