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• When you don’t have standards, it’s easier to exceed them.

  Jerry Scott

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• My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards – but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.

  Hugh Hefner

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• You’ve got to quit lowering your standards. Set your requirements up front so when a guy hooks you, he has to know this is business.

  Steve Harvey

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• In most languages, ‘control’ is the first synonym for the word ‘manage.’ Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

  Gary Hamel

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• I don’t deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

  William Hague

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• Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.

  William Hague

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• We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

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• By many peoples’ standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I’m a virtuoso.

  Robert Quine

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• I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

  Thomas S. Monson

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• If you’re going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you’re going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that’s based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you’re down to about 10 people or so.

  Branford Marsalis

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• If you don’t meet the standards, then you don’t qualify.

  Harold Eugene Ford Jr.

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• I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  Pat Paulsen

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• Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn’t so bad.

  Paul Volcker

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• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

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• They know what my standards are. They know what I need and how to get it to me, and they know how to communicate with me if for some reason they can’t get it.

  Thomas Keller

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• As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

  Alex Campbell

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• Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

  George P. Baker

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• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  Irving Babbitt

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• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  Irving Babbitt

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• 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

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