What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
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BEVERLY THOMAS For a public high school arts program to be recognized for excellence is truly an honor.
KAREN MEYER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Accreditation recognizes a museum's commitment to excellence and the high professional standards of ...
KATHY ROBERTS This program is designed to specifically ensure the highest standard of care for our patients. We ar...
BARRY JONES Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... In the world of excellence, education must meet global standards, but there should also be equity fo...
KAPIL SIBAL What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.
MIKE HOLMGREN Committing to excellence is what turns an average accomplishment into a great accomplishment . Commi...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school st...
BARBARA J. ALEXANDER The Chinese government is establishing high-technology standards that differ from international stan...
DENNIS FERNANDEZ We make no apologies for setting high standards.
NANCY ZIMPHER We have incredibly high standards for our kids.
JEAN GRAVES We had a bunch of young, inexperienced runners that really embraced the tradition of excellence in F...
DIANE HENTO To achieve excellence in all we do, we must model excellence in all we do.
TRAVIS J HEDRICK I do have impossibly high standards.
KATE WINSLET When we think of excellence, we think of an outstanding aspect, a model of its kind, the very best w...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go t...
DANIELLE BROOKS That's the scary part for the community and the scary part for the employees - we don't know. We don...
NANCY YOUNG Excellence is ever changing dynamism in our personal journey of growth and It is ever growing person...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue ...
ARISTOTLE Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue o...
ARISTOTLE Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly
because we have virtue o...
ARISTOTLE Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the ind...
JULIE BURCHILL I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my st...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
ARISTOTLE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILLIAM DURANT It was good to be gay on Top of the Pops years before it was good to be gay in Parliament, or gay in...
CAITLIN MORAN The Bridges to Excellence program is a very effective way to identify physicians who care for patien...
CHARLES CUTLER We make no apologies for setting high standards. Our work to make UC one of the best schools in the ...
NANCY ZIMPHER He has extremely high standards of conduct for people.
MARIO CONTE We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit’.You
ANITA BHOGLE Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselv...
JOHN W. GARDNER We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in b...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Vision is the act or power of imagination.Vision when takes shape of purposeful ideas it is reflecte...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
SALLY KIRKLAND The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Eve...
KARL JASPERS There's no question that we are committed to doing better in special-ed. As a system we aim for very...
BRIAN EDWARDS What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the nee...
AZIM PREMJI You get a certification from IACC, and when the meeting planners of the world see that designation t...
BOB MCGOWAN High standards are expectations and results that are based on what is possible not on what is accept...
FADI MALOUF In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control.
BETSY DEVOS It's a celebration of what the arts can do in public schools.
JOSE MERCADO People mistake their limitations for high standards.
JEAN TOOMER People mistake their limitations for high standards.
JEAN TOOMER Perfection is an opinion not a matter of fact or of standards. Popular culture draws standards, the ...
POATE J MATAIRAVULA What we say has conversational value; what we do has true value for life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuin...
BILL HAYDEN How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part...
MICHAEL PALIN We would look to the state standards.
LINDA BRIDGES I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.”
“I’m in lov...
ERIN MORGENSTERN We're still going to have to see what the benefits will look like based on what kind of programs com...
ANDREA MCCAULEY I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable c...
EDSGER DIJKSTRA In terms of administration, program and culture, it's just beginning. We're still choosing a name fo...
CHARLIE HUMPHREY When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the cl...
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure...
DOUG DUCEY Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it f...
SOPHOCLES Do we look out for the good of one or the good of the many? We have to do what is best for the schoo...
TODD ALEXANDER Excellence is having talent or quality with high intention, sincere effort & intelligent execution.S...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY Excellence is the quality of being outstanding. Excellence is ever-growing personal and collective b...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste
SOTONYE ANGA If we demand higher standards from our students, we obviously have to give them the resources to mee...
DENNIS TOMPKINS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexande...
ALEX SPANOS They wouldn't meet our standards for what we publish in the paper. We have standards about language,...
LEONARD DOWNIE Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you...
ROY T. BENNETT Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you loo...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF The level we have at the moment is essentially the same as high school content standards.
IAN WALTON We look for people with a background in cinematography, film, arts, classical areas within academia,...
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit...
GERMANY KENT Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations i...
GREG ANDERSON I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American sta...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON high standards, high morals and success.
ZYGI WILF The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the bes...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for ...
CHANAKYA Not everyone's high standards have to be the same thing.
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JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing...
JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh...
JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether...
JANE AUSTEN When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
JANE FONDA Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso...
JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear...
JANE AUSTEN