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“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Knows Two Running Lasts Past Week Months Standards Speed Ran Olympics Championship Improving Over The Past Constantly Improving

Author:Oscar Pistorius

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

Past Levels Clear Demand Standards Performances High Standards

Author:Tom Peters

“I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some people need to find a different hobby.”

People Needs Said Different Past Standards Hobbies

Author:Jimmy Wales

“The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.”

Years Wells Important Light Past Levels Common Share Prove Standards Defined Reasonable Fifty Representatives Profitable Portfolios Past Experiences

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.”

“Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.”

“Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.”

Source: Scepticism and Animal Faith

“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”

Ifs Past Accepting Opinion Events Danger Standards Ideology Formulas Measurement Accuracy High Standards Past Events Future Events

Author:John Dos Passos