Standards Quotes - Page 15

• As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Moving, Progress, Twenties

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• The Bassbone is just what I have been looking for... I can maintain the integrity of two instruments on stage or in the studio with control over the balance and keep my high standards for my low notes!

  Nathan East

  Integrity, Two, Balance

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• I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

  Gary Cherone

  Records, Jazz, Enough

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• Nebraska sets the standard for how fans should act.

  Beano Cook

  Fans, Nebraska, Should

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• I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

  Barney Kessel

  Excellence, Life Experience, Not Interested

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• This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the time, indefinitely. Within a century or two, all nations and most of humanity will be at or above today's Western living standards. I also speculate, however, that many people will continue to think and say that the conditions of life are getting worse.

  Julian Simon

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Different, Spirit

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• I
  would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young
  girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some
  people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being
  created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those
  magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.

  Penelope Cruz

  Girl, Teenage, People

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• Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

  Rick Pitino

  Boss, Competition, Matter

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires.

  Herman Cain

  Government, Vampire, Gold

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

  Gloria Steinem

  Individuality, Special, Eating Disorder

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• You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  Mark Twight

  Expectations, Environmental, Peers

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• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• There is a difference between standard of living and quality of life. Quality of life is more important.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Important, Quality

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• 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Respect, Country, Regret

  "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  John Sweeney

  Fall, Economic Inequality, Gaps

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• We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Gun, People

  Republican Presidential Debate, transcripts.cnn.com. June 5, 2007.

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• Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Dream, Believe, Expectations

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• When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Failing, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Men, Judging

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• I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

  Dale Carnegie

  Believe, Worry, Secret

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• While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.

  Gideon Rachman

  Children, School, Kids

  "What did Obama do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?" by Gideon Rachman, www.ft.com. October 9, 2009.

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• African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.

  Rebecca Enonchong

  Long, World, Succeed

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• It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Eye, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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