Quotes by High Standards Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. Alain de Botton high-standards standards idealist 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 high-standards enough people I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work. Brett Dennen high-standards writing song 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 high-standards skills real Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. Brian Tracy high-standards mediocrity leadership I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less. Chrissie Hynde high-standards vices people 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 high-standards expectations people 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. Dan Gable high-standards progress attitude Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living. Deepak Chopra high-standards change comforting 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. Ellen G. White high-standards divine-wisdom sides It was a staggering moment when I first heard the news. Lennon was a most talented man and above all, a gentle soul. John and his colleagues set a high standard by which contemporary music continues to be measured. Frank Sinatra high-standards soul men 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 Dostoevsky high-standards hate men It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that. George Blake kgb high-standards country Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher. Jay Leno standards-set high-standards today 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 high-standards income europe 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 high-standards energy games 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 high-standards environmental hypocrisy 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 events past 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 high-standards vulnerable found There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance. John Wooden high-standards done littles 123»