Top High Standards Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of High Standards quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Olivia Newton-John
I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
- Olivia Newton-John
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Image of Marcus Giles
You've got to set high standards for yourself.
- Marcus Giles
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Image of Rio Ferdinand
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
- Rio Ferdinand
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Image of Sam Mendes
There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.
- Sam Mendes
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Image of Jonathan Santlofer
I found with poetry that I couldn't keep it up. I was too vulnerable. Maybe I was too aware of the audience. And I had impossibly high standards that I could never approach. So there was always a sense of being a failure, and of being vulnerable.
- Jonathan Santlofer
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Image of Josie Maran
I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
- Josie Maran
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Image of Alain de Botton
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
- Alain de Botton
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Image of John Wooden
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
- John Wooden
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Image of Venus Williams
Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
- Venus Williams
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Image of Stefan Molyneux
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.
- Stefan Molyneux
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