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Without standards, there can be no improvement.
Taiichi Ohno
Without benchmarks, there can be no advancement.
2.
Where there is no Standard there can be no Kaizen
Taiichi Ohno
3.
Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.
Rihanna
Maintain your expectations for all circumstances and individuals.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
Ida Tarbell
We were elevating our quality of life to the detriment of our integrity.
5.
To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.
Charles James
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You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.
Stephen A. Smith
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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
Sophia Loren
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
Lou Holtz
10.
Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
Diego Rivera
12.
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
George F. Kennan
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If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.
Tony Robbins
14.
I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.
Bette Midler
15.
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING.
Mark Batterson
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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.
Plato
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You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
Heston Blumenthal
18.
People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.
Leon Festinger
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Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
20.
Keep your heel, head and standards high.
Coco Chanel
21.
Keep your heels, head & standards high!
Coco Chanel
22.
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
Dick Costolo
24.
Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.
Slavoj Žižek
25.
I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.
Suzy Parker
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The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George Orwell
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I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.
Rex Stout
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God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
Randy Alcorn
30.
Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.
Louis van Gaal
31.
If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards
Shahrukh Khan
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I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.
Jim Brown
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
Walter Lippmann
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When you're around someone good, your own standards are raised.
Ritchie Blackmore
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Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.
Peter Singer
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There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.
Komla Dumor
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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
Confucius
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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard
Kate Burridge
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When one 'we' gets to determine standards for all 'we's' then some 'we's' are in trouble.
Lisa Delpit
43.
I feel like I've helped create a new standard of hustle for defensive linemen.
Jevon Kearse
44.
The standard of living of the average American has to decline.
Paul Volcker
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The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
Michelle Bachelet
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The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.
Steven Furtick
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
Pat Paulsen
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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?
Gary Snyder
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moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
Ambrose Bierce
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Women who are beautiful or who achieve beauty according to the imposed standards are rewarded; those who cannot or choose not to be beautiful are punished, economically and socially.
Naomi Wolf