Raise The Bar On Your Time Quotes & Sayings

Leap...and the net will follow — Valerie Bertinelli

Too much contemporary fiction seems purposefully to address small things in small ways. And yet why not try for the all-inclusive, the gripping, for the audacious? — Darin Strauss

THE WONDERFUL EXPLOITS OF GRASSHOPPER. — Cornelius Mathews

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it. — Andrew Murray

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. — Mia Hamm

The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area but leave him intact ...
He is an isolated, definitive human datum, in stable equilibrium except for the buffets of the impinging forces that displace him in one direction or another. Self-poised in elemental space, he spins symmetrically about his own spiritual axis until the parallelogram of forces bears down on him, whereupon he follows he line of the resultant — Thorstein Veblen

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. — Haruki Murakami

Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard - very mean, or very conceited and all - and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. — J.D. Salinger

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. — Holly Black

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo. — Tre Cool

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers. — Gene Sarazen

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. — Quentin Blake

If you empower women, you can change the world. — Meg Ryan

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount. — Lynn Schusterman

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run. — Kristen Johnston

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis. — Paul McCartney

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s. — Timothy Ferriss

What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation. — M. Russell Ballard

When God loves you, what can be better than that? — Aretha Franklin