Standards Quotes
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In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a real caring and compassion. It was not without rigor, not without discipline, not without standards, but all that was done out of love.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
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I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
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Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.
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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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There is something childish and legalistic about churches in which all of the saints observe precisely the same standards. When all lives begin to sink into the same mould of denial and exercise of liberty, something is amiss.
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The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.
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Guy's a psychopath,even by vampire standards. And that's saying something.
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The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.
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Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself.
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Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.
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The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite.
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In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.
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How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends
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Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.
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We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
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By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
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Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.
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I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.
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We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
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Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.
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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
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Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.
