133 Standards Set Quotes
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Famous Standards Set Quotes
All standards are double standards. — Tucker Carlson
The standard is not writ on the stone. The definition of the standard is that it is the best way to do the job for now. It should be regarded as a next step to make further improvement. — Masaaki Imai
Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. — Taiichi Ohno
Without a standard there is no logical basis for making a decision or taking action. — Joseph M. Juran
It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. — Mandy Hale
Women set the standards for sex, men meet them. — Chris Williamson
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. — Tony Robbins
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. — Steve Jobs
We make no apologies for setting high standards. — Nancy L. Zimpher
Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. — Douglas McGregor
High standards protect you from low-quality experiences. — Andrew Tate
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. — Henry Ford
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe
National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness. — Phyllis Schlafly
Short Standards Set Quotes
- You have to standardize before you can optimize. You can't improve a habit that doesn't exist. — James Clear
- We must always set the bar high, otherwise we do not progress. — Kylian Mbappe
- Quality is everyone's responsibility. — W. Edwards Deming
- People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection. — Temple Grandin
- If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards. — Tony Robbins
- we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character. — Ida Tarbell
- We have very high standards and it works. Our business is wonderful as a result. — Jim Simons
- If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards — Shahrukh Khan
- We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. — Phil Crosby
- Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Sayings
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Set Your Standards High Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities. — Tony Robbins
Mel [Bochner] sets a very high standard. He expects only the best and most thoughtful and rigorous examinations, not only of the history of art but your own practice. — Kehinde Wiley
Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent. — Debbi Fields
Set Standards Quotes
Approximately 80 % of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources. — Ronald Reagan
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. — David Rockefeller
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. — Nellie L. McClung
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy. — John F. Kerry
Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards. — John Henrik Clarke
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake
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
Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. — Ed Markey
The bar has never been set lower. A bit of consistency, a bit of intentionality, a bit of resilience and a gram of talent will make you into an absolute killer. — Chris Williamson
Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself — Rick Pitino
Set Your Standards Quotes
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them. — Louise Hay
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards. — Francis Chan
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best. — Henry Mintzberg
Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower. — Robin Jones Gunn
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
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. — Nat Friedman
Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life. — Spencer W. Kimball
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings. — Jack Kerouac
The results of your life reflect the standards you’ve set. — Robin S. Sharma
Set Standards For Yourself Quotes
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
You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts. — Iyanla Vanzant
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that. — Michael Jordan
You've got to set high standards for yourself. — Marcus Giles
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
The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have. — Gabriel Iglesias
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself. — Anthony J. D'Angelo
There's such a crazy social expectation now that we put on ourselves and on each other about what motherhood is supposed to look and feel like. And it's impossible to live up to those standards. You're setting yourself up for failure at every possible turn. — Kathryn Hahn
It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself. — Darren Hardy
If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself. — John Dyer Baizley
What Is Set Standards Quotes
EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix. — Gina McCarthy
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards. — Susan Sontag
Standards are different for all things, so the standard set by man is by no means the only 'certain' standard. If you mistake what is relative for something certain, you have strayed far from the ultimate truth. — Zhuangzi
A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers. — Ernest Sosa
We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop. — Bakari Kitwana
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. — Marva Collins
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. — Maurice Sendak
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men. — Judith Lewis Herman
Set The Standard Quotes
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. — Marie-Antoine Careme
A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and asserting human rights to make those standards a living reality for people everywhere. — Mary Robinson
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves. — Iyanla Vanzant
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. — Thor Heyerdahl
Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet. — Philip Yancey
Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. — Steve Maraboli
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same. — Ronda Rousey
The best way to improve a relationship is to improve yourself. Set the standard. — Mark Manson
Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles. — Hugh Hefner
One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future. — John W. Gardner
National Standards Quotes
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. — Saddam Hussein
I hope for an America where we can all contend freely and vigorously, but where we will treasure and guard those standards of civility which alone make this nation safe for both democracy and diversity. — Edward Kennedy
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. — Marion Nestle
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes! — Ida Tarbell
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals. — Ida Tarbell
I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation. — William J. Clinton
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence. — Charles De Gaulle
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny. — Jimmy Carter
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers. — Lance Morrow
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
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More Standards Set Quotes
Maximum Sustained Power workouts are much less taxing on the cardio endurance component and instead focus on going for max power or going home. Literally, you end your mini-sets when you can’t lift the heavy bar again due to accumulated fatigue. Or, in the case of vertical jumps or calibrated exercise equipment, you stop the set when you fall materially short of your baseline absolute power performance standard that you started the workout with. — Mark Sisson
...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK. — James Hunter
Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future. — Katharine Hepburn
We are all what we are, in large degree, because of others who have helped, coached, taught, counseled, who set a standard by example, who've taken an interest in our interests, opened doors, opened our minds, helped us see, who gave encouragement when we needed it, who reprimanded or prodded when we needed it, and at critical moments, inspired. — David McCullough
Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No." — Nia Long
My involvement with UNICEF is particularly important to me because it is UNICEF that introduced me to volunteerism, thereby helping me to set my own personal standard of contributing my time and giving back to others. Working on behalf of UNICEF's lifesaving efforts is one of my most valued roles. — Sarah Jessica Parker
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. — Ian Botham
I'm not an historian but I'll venture an opinion: Modern cosmology really began with Darwin and Wallace. Unlike anyone before them, they provided explanations of our existence that completely rejected supernatural agents... Darwin and Wallace set a standard not only for the life sciences but for cosmology as well. — Leonard Susskind
Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set. — Eda LeShan
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