A Quote by Jean Toomer

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

Jean Toomer

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Jean Toomer
American - Novelist
December 26, 1894 - March 30, 1967

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Maybe the standards should be higher to be an officer. People will say there area high standards, but clearly they're not high enough.

Brandon Marshall

I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards.

Carrie Lam

We do all, myself included, we tend to hold ourselves to pretty low standards. But when it comes to judging public figures or politicians or people we've never met, we tend to hold people to very high standards, and, if we held ourselves to those standards, we'd always fall short.

Moby

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

Rory Gallagher

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

Greg Anderson

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Hugh Shelton

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

George W. Bush

I think that, because I set such high standards for myself in my first season, it became an issue of me keeping up to those standards.

Scott Sinclair

Who's married and who isn't married. I have my standards but I shouldn't have to impose my standards on others. Other people have their standards and they have no right to impose their marriage standards on me.

Ron Paul

Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards.

Thomas Sowell

Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.

Doug Ducey

The key thing that I find that when you're kind of in boom times and you're hiring bunches, if you can hire, you know, always maintain very high standards and even if you, you know, can't find enough of, you know, what is typically called A players, then don't hire the people. All right? So, you know, use that as a way of standards.

Reid Hoffman

As a former teacher, I have a high passion for quality student learning and high standards.

Kay Ivey

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

Gordon Strachan

Our standards at Bayern are extremely high, with every training session at very high intensity.

Jupp Heynckes

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