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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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• Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves – and by which they are willing to be judged.

  Frederick W. Smith

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

  Pat Paulsen

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

  Robert Quine

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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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• 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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• Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

  Van Wyck Brooks

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• If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

  Thomas Sowell

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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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• 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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• 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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