Top 67 Set The Bar Quotes
#1. I just set the bar, niggas fall under it like a limbo
Drake
#2. 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
#3. Self worth can only be measured by you, set the bar high
L.J. Vanier
#4. 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
#5. I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.
Lorii Myers
#6. Set the bar high - do the best you possibly can.
Donald Trump
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. He waited just a moment longer, giving them the opportunity to fill the space, to exceed expectation.
They did not. Adam had set the bar at precisely the height they could jump and no higher.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.
Mike Birbiglia
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.
Tiger Woods
#14. I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on HBO called 'The Wire.' That experience really set the bar for me and opened a lot of doors. It also gave me a lot of street cred in terms of my phone ringing and job offers.
Deirdre Lovejoy
#15. I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.
Natalie Maines
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don't envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won't hold out.
Jon Bon Jovi
#19. I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
Aaron Rodgers
#20. My biggest fear is that I become useless or less useful by not being up to date - be it with technology, changing consumers, changing global situations. You continuously have to have a little level of paranoia that forces you to set the bar higher every day.
Paul Polman
#22. 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
#23. Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.
Margot Robbie
#24. 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
#25. If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.
John Mellencamp
#26. I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
E.L. James
#27. Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter how tired you are, how late it is, you will do it. So if you say, "I will write one hundred words a day" - set the bar there, and then you can actually get over that bar.
N.D. Wilson
#28. I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.
Aries Spears
#29. I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.
Megan Fox
#31. They say that love is powerful as cough syrup and Styrofoam.
All I know is I fell asleep and woke up in that Monte Carlo
With the ugly Kardashian ...
Lamar, oh, sorry. Yo, we done both set the bar low.
Eminem
#32. I do like to start on time; I like to set the bar high for people.
Tina Fey
#33. 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
#35. The more games you get, the more confidence you gain. I started to set the bar high for myself.
Clint Dempsey
#36. The bar was manned, or should I say womanned by a skeletal heroin chic concentration camp survivor with an elaborate set of tattoos and an incredibly bizarre set of piercings. I swear, if women continue to insist on making their selves this unattractive I'm going to swear off sex permanently.
Randall Moore
#37. Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.
Roopleen
#38. If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.
Megan Amram
#39. 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly - I still think I got the part because of Shelley.
Ted Danson
#40. The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.
Cindy Crawford
#41. The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Peter H. Reynolds
#42. Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.
Rebecca Gordon
#43. The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.
Christopher Cross
#44. Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#45. They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
Frank McCourt
#46. The bar on business communication is set so low that there are almost no entry-level requirements other than being a living human being
Mark Bowden
#47. Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.
Michel Patini
#48. In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
Jane Smiley
#49. I can say with great confidence that I was much more critical of the people I knew than of the people I didn't. Just because I know what they're capable of, so the bar is set so much higher for them - unfairly, frankly.
Chris Lowell
#50. Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
Jonathan Raban
#51. Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
Ben Feldman
#52. I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
Bar Paly
#53. 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
#54. Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as President, you won't see another black president for generations! I think he has set a very low bar and I think it's a shame for the African-American people.
Pope Francis
#55. The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
P. J. O'Rourke
#56. The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
Seth Godin
#57. Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and grey, we're going to set up a coffee shop, and we formed the company about 18 months ago when we thought of the name. It's going to be TLC - Tastes Like Chocolate.
Elizabeth Taylor
#58. The bar was pulsating with rock music and packed with partiers, all set to leave their inhibitions, and their sobriety, behind.
Kenneth Eade
#59. Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell like decomposing bears.
Louise Penny
#60. Hey, nice landing!" Addie called, and I turned to see her standing next to her shuttle, grinning.
I laughed and shrugged my shoulders. "They're all still alive!"
"Sort of a low bar you set for yourself, huh?" Beth asked, playfully punching my shoulder as I helped her out of the shuttle.
Amy Tintera
#61. A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
Jerry Saltz
#62. Monkey bar," Annabeth said. "I'm great at these." She leaped onto to the first rung and start swinging her way across. She was scared of tiny spiders, but not of plummeting to her death from a set of monkey bars. Go figure.
Rick Riordan
#63. Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.
Antonio Villaraigosa
#64. Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.
Swizz Beatz
#65. When Jack walked in he took a calculated seat at the bar, it didn't take long for a chill to set into the room.
Kenneth Eade
#66. 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
#67. Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with 'The Sopranos,' and then on mainstream TV, shows like 'Lost' broke amazing ground.
Nestor Carbonell
