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High Standard Quotes

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the ability to compel people to observe high standards of conduct, then you run a greater risk.
- Spencer Abraham

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
- Jane Alexander

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.
- Richard V Allen

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
- Greg Anderson

If you have self-respect, you will take satisfaction in being well groomed and will not allow yourself to perform shabbily. You will continue to work toward high standards and goals to serve others, to continue and to practice self-discipline. You will not compromise your standards or beliefs.
- Marvin J Ashton

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

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

If you're insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes.
- Alan Bradley

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
- Jeb Bradley

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
- Michael Burgess

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.
- Michael Jordan

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!
- Miley Cyrus

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
- Anthony J Dangelo

That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.
- Sarah Dessen

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 Dostoyevsky

Seducing Jordana was solid she's got such high standards but when I finally got the snogs in it was all worth it.
I transform Jordana's blather into high-level discourse: Lounging in a post-osculatory glow, I knew that all those months of hard chivalry had been worthwhile.
- Joe Dunthorne

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

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

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.
- Vito Fossella

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.
- Jennifer M Granholm

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

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.
- Yousuf Karsh

Of all the crap, crap, crappy nights I've ever had in the whole of my crap life. On a scale of one to 10, we're talking...a minus 6. And it's not like I even have very high standards.
- Sophie Kinsella

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

We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.
- John Olver

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
- John Olver

The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.
- Michael J Owen

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

She was the first person on either side of her family to go to college, and she held herself to insanely high standards. She worried a lot about whether she was good enough. It was surprising to see how relieved she seemed whenever I told her how amazing she was. I wanted her to feel strong and free. She was beautiful when she was free.
- Rob Sheffield

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

People mistake their limitations for high standards.
- Jean Toomer

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
- Randy West

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