Top 36 Set The Bar High Quotes
#2. I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street. I read it and thought, I'm not that bad. This is where the bar is set.
Paula Hawkins
#3. The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
Mary Roach
#4. Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#5. Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
Margot Robbie
#6. When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared ... I, however, considered myself a professional.
Nancy Wolfe
#7. Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery.
Holly Black
#8. I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.
Giovani Bernard
#9. I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.
MaryJanice Davidson
#10. Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ...
Vita Sackville-West
#11. I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E.L. James
#12. Helping someone because you feel sorry for them is one thing, but doing it because you like them and care about what happens to them is better. That means you aren't doing it for yourself.
Katherine Allred
#13. The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
Clint Dempsey
#14. I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
Tina Fey
#15. Records are the only thing that remain of an athlete, the only thing that people will remember. If I want to ensure that people don't forget me, I can only stop once I've set the bar as high as possible for anyone coming after me.
Lindsey Vonn
#16. I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignore
Cristina Henriquez
#17. I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
Aaron Rodgers
#18. It's pointless to focus on others, as we can only control ourselves. I set a high bar and then it is my own private race. No one knows I'm winning or losing but me.
Jewel
#19. I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.
Drake
#20. Self worth can only be measured by you, set the bar high
L.J. Vanier
#21. I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
Idina Menzel
#22. If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.
Phil LaMarr
#23. Set the bar high - do the best you possibly can.
Donald Trump
#24. Senator Jon Kyl has given all of the eventual candidates in this race an excellent model of how to best serve Arizona and the country. He's set the bar extremely high, and I'll do my best to meet that standard.
Jeff Flake
#25. Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
Dan Shechtman
#26. We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
Lance Burton
#27. Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life ... is death.
Stephen Jenkinson
#28. People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.
Kevin Smith
#29. Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins' set the bar very high for the superhero movie, as it showed that you could get a great cast for these movies and take a real filmmaker's perspective.
Jon Favreau
#30. If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
Peter Marshall
#31. I'm not trying to set the bar high. We're just trying to compete. We want to grind. This is what we do.
Russ Rose
#33. In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Jane Smiley
#34. The fantasy of doing a task perfectly is common with procrastinators; they set the bar for success very high. Then they are afraid to approach it. As the deadline approaches, they must set the bar lower.
John Perry
#35. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Jonathan Raban
#36. The rebel is back. It feels good - different, somehow - but good. It is sometimes true that a girl can become someone else with the simplest of changes.
Katherine Owen
