"Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?"

-- Tom Peters

#Past Quotes #High Standards Quotes #Levels Quotes

“I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.”
“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”
“When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives.”
“Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.”
“To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.”
“I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.”
“Memory changes as a person matures.”
“All my family, my blood, is mixed up now. They don't even all know each other. I just hope they don't never hate or fight each other, not knowin who they are. Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We!... We the human Family. God says so! FAMILY!”

Source : FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Jul 04, 2012

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