High Standard Quotes
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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 (High Standard Quotes)
I think it’s okay to have high standards but its important to be able to compromise rather than like ditching someone completely (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
We have these impossibly high standards and we’ll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that’s okay (High Standard Quotes)
We can’t win the struggle for high standards if we just talk a good game... we’ve got to play a good game (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
You can have calmness of mind at all times by the practice of yoga. You can have restful sleep. You can have increased energy, vigour, vitality, longevity, and a high standard of health. You can turn out efficient work within a short space of time. You can have success in every walk of life (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less (High Standard Quotes)
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
I don’t play fantasy baseball anymore now because it’s too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I’m pretty serious about my fantasy football, though (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
If you're insinuating that my personal hygiene is not up to the same high standard as yours you can go suck my galoshes (High Standard Quotes)
I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question (High Standard Quotes)
Never apologize for having high standards, because people who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them (High Standard Quotes)
And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it’s time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don’t go in to education to get rich. They don’t go in to education because they don’t believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we’ve got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
Set high standards for yourself and don’t settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities (High Standard Quotes)
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance (High Standard Quotes)
We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we’ve never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we’d always fall short (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)
Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don’t really care if other people can’t even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards (High Standard Quotes)
You can truly grieve for every officer who’s been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards (High Standard Quotes)
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 (High Standard Quotes)