Quotes About Merit

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.

American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job.

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.

If I am ever the starter of the Denver Broncos, I want it to be because I earned it.

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

Had Barack Obama been obliged to take his degree at the University of Akron, say, it is doubtful that his progress would have been remotely as stellar.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have diminished those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Our sins are worser than the sins of the devils: the lapsed angels never sinned against Christ's blood. Chris died not for them.The medicine of his merit was never intended to heal them. But we have affronted and disparaged his blood by unbelief.

When you do good work, people will notice you.

In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.

will capitalize on this difference for it is an asset to be promoted to the fullest.

Just as [he] had expected. The preacher retreated to authority as soon as he feared his ideas could not stand on their own merit. Reasonable argument was impossible when authority became the arbiter....

And were you punished? No. Why? Because you were rich. Money and talent aren't the same thing. That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors, said Sister Carlotta. And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

To see high merit and be unable to raise it to office, to raise it but not to give such promotion precedence, is just destiny.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard.