Quotes About Criteria

Offers have to be really interesting for me to take them up either in movies or TV.

When a company seeks a new chief executive officer, or a university a new vice-chancellor, enormous trouble is taken to find the best person.

I'm very specific about the guys I don't like and what I'm not okay with.

I think you only hold U.S. Opens on great courses.

I do not think that people have religion because they relax their usually strict criteria for evidence and accept extraordinary claims; I think they are led to relax these criteria because some extraordinary claims have become quite plausible to them.

Creating alignment is one of the most important roles of leadership. It often falls to the team leader to ensure the purpose of the team is defined, clear, and communicated. He or she must make sure the team mission meets five criteria:

It provides a convenient excuse for arbitrary decisions: asked why it rejected a student, a college can say that he or she looked wonderful on paper but didn't fit into the mix. The image of a fair but fickle process also pumps up the applicant pool:

Around 8 percent of American gamers between ages eight and eighteen seem to meet psychiatry's diagnostic criteria for addiction; brain studies reveal changes in their neural reward system while they game that are akin to those found in alcoholics and drug abusers.

The root of the greatest errors in philosophy lies in projecting our human purposes, criteria and preferences into the objective universe.

But you have to admit there are great photographs,' I said. 'All right..There are memorable photographs. Remarkable photographs.' 'So, what makes them memorable or remarkable? What criteria do you use to judge them? To make that decision?' 'I don't think about it. I just know. Instinct.' 'Then maybe you should think about it. You judge a great photo in the same way you judge a great painting or a film or a play or a statue. It's art mon ami

Ah," said Jake. "Very tricky, Jenna. The answer, of course, is 'diner.' 'Fiend' is the word you would get if you took away one letter—'r' in this instance—but didn't rearrange the letters. 'Diner' fulfills both criteria specified in the question.

abundance of other criteria. One thing I knew when I began this project: I was not the person to assemble this list. So I followed a recipe that served me well in my first six Fifty Places books—to see the advice of some professionals. To write Fifty Places

the internal review at Hewlett-Packard a few years back that showed women within the company applied for open jobs only if they met 100 percent of the criteria listed; men, on the other hand, felt they needed to meet 60 percent of the requirements.3

Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc.

To minimize market uncertainty and achieve the maximum effect of its policies, the Federal Reserve is committed to providing the public as much information as possible about the uses of its balance sheet, plans regarding future uses of its balance sheet, and the criteria on which the relevant decisions are based.

I've heard of it, returned Mary, knowing full well that it was one of the most expensive and exclusive restaurants on the Thames. It was so exclusive, in fact, that most nights the guest never attained the necessary high criteria, and it remained empty.

Speed was one of the criteria for me - one of my strengths. But I had to use them all... everything I had.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all.

Axiom Nine: In the absence of valid conditions, standards are completely meaningless.

If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

Since we all want better leaders, we should not lower our standards when we select women, but we should raise them when we select men.

Hiring without clear and strict criteria for cultural fit greatly hampers the potential for success of any organization.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.