Top 33 Quotes About Standards And Expectations
#1. That was the problem with love. It never happened on your terms, it happened on theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. You may say 'Universe'. I say 'Existence'" he replied with infinite patience.
P.R. Ford
#3. Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.
Harvey MacKay
#4. Don't let the low standards and expectations of the world and others cause you to aim beneath your nobility and ability-dream big! What I know and have learned is that anything worth doing is not easy and that we can do anything that is not easy if we believe.
Elaine S. Dalton
#5. Do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is ... only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.
Steve Goodier
#6. I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing ...
Jacob M. Appel
#7. No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.
Donella Meadows
#8. When I look at myself in the mirror, I wonder where everything has gone. Even the things I used to remember with so much clarity now seem dimmer. What happens to memory when it vanishes? What happens to events when everyone who remembers them ceases to remember?
Dean Francis Alfar
#10. I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.
Aaron Johnson
#11. Hell and furies!" Eleanor had begun to pace, her skirts swirling about her ankles. "What was he thinking?"
"When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wine cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.
Sharon Kay Penman
#12. When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
Colin Meloy
#13. We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO in charge, seeing me hesitate, explained kindly:'You write "No" in that line'.
Auberon Waugh
#14. We tend to live down to other people's expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standards that other people hold of us.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#15. Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones.
Joyce Maynard
#16. I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
Leigh Bardugo
#17. 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
#18. Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.
Chronixx
#21. I have precognitive dreams such as the year my brother's apartment caught fire and he lost everything. I'd dreamt it two months before. Alas, though I warned him, it still happened. Thankfully no one was harmed. I also read Tarot cards, mostly for fun.
Franny Armstrong
#22. Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
Alice Hegan Rice
#23. In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Chris Stein
#24. Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
Ed Robertson
#25. I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
Jackie DeShannon
#26. Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you ...
Charles Dickens
#28. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.
Liu Cixin
#29. Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.
Habeeb Akande
#30. Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
Stephen R. Covey
#31. If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
Daphne Oz
#32. Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
Marie Corelli
#33. Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
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