Quotes with standards

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  • David Ogilvy Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John W. Gardner The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Andres S. Tannenbaum The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
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  • Billy Graham The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Branford Marsalis The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Merlin Olsen The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
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  • Barbara Mikulski The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Beth Ditto This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Mark Twain To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Campbell Brown To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bill Shuster We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Asa Hutchinson Well firstly, that points certainly at the need for international standards on biometrics that would move in the same direction so that we can have the same technical requirements.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bill Bryson When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education...
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Brian Tracy You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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