Quotes About Yardstick

What we call beauty is perhaps the strength of our feeling of resistance to destructibility. Difficulty of reproduction is the yardstick of the degree of beauty.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

One of the secret benefits of hiring remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

The belief that the human umwelt reveals reality or deep reality seems, in this perspective, as naive as the notion that a yardstick shows more reality than a voltmeter, or that my religion 'is' better than your religion. Neurogenetic chauvinism has no more scientific justification than national or sexual chauvinisms.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will . What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will . Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

For me, it's about the impact that the role has in the film overall. Less or more screen time, whether I get to romance the hero, is not the yardstick I go by. If my part is strong enough, then why not?

It has always been accepted, even in pronouncements by the Supreme Court that the Court and its judgements can be subjected to strong, even trenchant criticism. Is the same yardstick not available for comments on the use or abuse of the Court's powers of contempt?

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

The refinement of an individual or a society is measured by the yardstick of how well greed and desires are controlled.

Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.

All organizations must be capable of change. We need concepts and measurements that give to other kinds of organizations what the market test and profitability yardstick give to business. Those tests and yardsticks will be quite different.