Setting The Bar Quotes

#1. I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

G. Willow Wilson

#2. Thank you for all your guidance and wisdom, for setting the bar so much higher than I thought I could reach, and for giving me plenty of room to run with my own ideas. You've been the best teacher I've ever had.

Lisa Genova

#3. Literature keeps setting the bar for our dreams not higher but elsewhere.

Ange Mlinko

#4. In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls.

James Surowiecki

#5. The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

Bethany Mota

#6. The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

Steve Harvey

#7. He wondered if perhaps, subconsciously, he was trying to sabotage her efforts by setting the bar too high, trying to keep her with him longer; but surely his subconscious wasn't that stupid?

Dianne Sylvan

#8. So, we're in agreement. That's a crazy idea and we will never have one like that again."
"Cook, all our ideas are crazy. That's setting the bar a little high, don't you think?

Darynda Jones

#9. The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

Patty Murray

#10. We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people
especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

Alice Walker

#11. Shit," Pablo says.

Don Winslow

#12. Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Karen Armstrong

#13. You know, you're setting a pretty damn high bar for my future husband to live up to. He's going to have to be a rock star in the sack to even come close to this.

Katee Robert

#14. Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.

Gena Showalter

#15. Surveillance of power is one of the most important ways to ensure that power does not abuse its status. But, of course, power does not like to be watched.

Bruce Schneier

#16. Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Katherine Anne Porter

#17. Some people set the bar so low you can trip over it.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

Felix Dennis

#19. Now we see that every experience in life is designed to magnify the cross of Christ.

John Piper

#20. Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

Katherine McIntyre

#21. The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.

Raymond Sokolov

#22. Robots ... I think that is a hot topic.

Bill Budge

#23. Going to a bar or pool hall doesn't mean you're a drunk, just like sitting in a henhouse doesn't make you a chicken. It's the same in the opposite setting. Sitting in a church building doesn't make you a follower of Christ.

Jase Robertson

#24. Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

Mitch Albom

#25. Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.

Chuck Klosterman