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

  • 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.

  • People mistake their limitations for high standards.

    Life   Mistake   People  
    Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
  • I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I have very high standards for myself and my career.

    "Ryan Kwanten Exclusive Interview RED HILL; Plus an Update on THE KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 4, 2010.
  • Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

    Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House
  • For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

    R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high standards and I try to meet them. I have to struggle like hell to make a drawing look good.

  • Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its member to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

    "Thank Goodness!" by Daniel C. Dennett, www.edge.org. November 2, 2006.
  • My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

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

  • I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

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

    Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.29, SUNY Press
  • The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

  • Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • Being a professional does not have a very high standard.

    Source: beintheloopchicago.com
  • There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.

    Art   Writing   Thinking  
    Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.
  • I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

    "Are Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart On The Rocks?". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.
  • A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

    R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

  • There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

    Source: www.politico.com
  • Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

  • Rarely do schools acknowledge the power of peer culture in defining standards, and rarely do they take advantage of this power as an engine for quality. When students themselves are in charge of projects that they care about, peer pressure can become a powerful force for high standards.

  • What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

    John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

    Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books
  • ....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard of living, were rightly proud to be able to provide for their children those things which they themselves had not had. And why their children, inevitably, took those things for granted. It meant that new values and new expectations had crept into our societies along with new standards of living. Hence the materialistic and often greedy and selfish lifestyle of so many young people in the Western world, especially in the United States.

  • I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  • I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!

    Girl   Dad   Father  
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