High Standards quotes
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In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.
-- Donald Trump -
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
-- Jean Toomer -
As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
-- Jeffrey Sonnenfeld -
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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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 -
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 -
I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
-- Josie Maran -
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 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 -
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 -
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are all different-all first-rate human beings with high standards-whom I completely and unequivocally adore-don't always agree with-but always admire and respect. They all have wit and a sense of humor and, thank God, I have hung on to mine.
-- Lauren Bacall -
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 -
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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
-- Marya Mannes -
We make no apologies for setting high standards.
-- Nancy L. Zimpher -
I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
-- Olivia Newton-John -
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
-- Patrice Motsepe -
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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 -
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season
-- Rio Ferdinand -
Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
-- Sarah Dessen -
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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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 -
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 -
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 -
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
-- Tom Peters -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Being a professional does not have a very high standard.
-- Terry Bozzio -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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 -
You've got to set high standards for yourself.
-- Marcus Giles
