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One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
I have extremely high standards.
I do have impossibly high standards.
I've always held myself to high standards.
You've got to set high standards for yourself.
I am a perfectionist, and I set high standards.
We make no apologies for setting high standards.
I have very high standards for myself and my career.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
I can't help it! I'm just a woman with high standards!
Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
Being a professional does not have a very high standard.
My dad always had very high standards for me, from day one.
I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.
I don't have high standards in taste; I prefer soju over wine.
If I'm demanding and have high standards, I'm happy about that.
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
People can live up to high standards, but they can't live up to perfection.
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.
The challenge itself is to exceed certain high standards you've set for yourself.
Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
I couldn't say a specific thing, but the media is not really held to high standards anymore.
I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
I set myself high standards on the pitch and know I have not always lived up to them this season.
I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.
Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
Results are a consequence of doing things well and having high standards, improving the detail of how we play.
I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.
There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.
Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.
Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.
Ueli Steck, I'm absolutely certain, had a very strong inner drive to keep pushing. He set very high standards for himself.
And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.
As you live high standards publicly and privately, and even under great pressure adhere to them, you raise the vision of others.
You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.
The music industry is an unforgiving place, and it shall unceremoniously show you the door if you can't perform to high standards.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.
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.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
