Standards Quotes - Page 12

• Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, High Standards, Mediocrity

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House

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• 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

  Technology, Self, Survival

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.

  William Thorsell

  Time, Stress, Pay

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• When other people ask me, 'What gives you the right to suggest standards for others?', my answer is, 'If I don't, someone else, perhaps less qualified, will.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  People, Giving, Answers

  Anton Szandor LaVey (2000). “The Devil's Notebook”, p.146, Feral House

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• Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

  James Bovard

  Path, Certain, Liberation

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.76, Macmillan

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• Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.

  Diego Rivera

  Art, Taste, Raises

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• 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

  Emotional, Race, High Standards

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

  James Salter

  Book, Ideas, Levels

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• It is not people who break ethical standards who are regarded as aliens. It is people like me who are isolated.

  Grigori Perelman

  Ethical Standards, People, Aliens

  "TIL a Russian mathematician solved a 100 year old math problem. He declined the Fields medal, $1 million in awards, and later retired from math because he hated the recognition the math community gives to people who prove things", rebrn.com.

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• The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Use, Advertising

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• The Journal of Discourses ranks as one of the standard works of the Church, and every right-minded Saint will certainly welcome with joy every Number as it comes forth from the press as an additional reflector of 'the light that shines from Zion's hill.

  George Q. Cannon

  Numbers, Light, Zion

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• By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence.

  Joseph Sobran

  Kings, Impact, Government

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• Wartime always brings expansions of state power, together with erosions of moral and constitutional standards.

  Joseph Sobran

  Erosion, Together, Expansion

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Democratic, Ifs

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• Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

  J. R. D. Tata

  Perfect, Quality, Cleanliness

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• Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Quality, Details

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• The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

  Kimberlee Green

  Educational, Successful, College

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• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Ocean, Men

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• When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

  Rasmus Lerdorf

  Caring, World

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• We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

  Shirley Williams

  Running, Teacher, Children

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• The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Quality, Hazards, Care

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• The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Ethical Standards, Understanding

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• Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Men, Order, Soul

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