Quotes About Criteria

#1. Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment they drop, you suddenly find yourself in tune with the whole; not only in tune, you really find you are the whole.

Rajneesh

#2. Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.

Ned Colletti

#3. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. The amazing criteria by which Christ will judge is whether we feed the hungry or not

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Herman Kahn

#6. I have cultivated a little crew of people whose opinions I understand. It's like the way you'd follow certain film critics because you know what their criteria are, and you may not agree with them, but you can glean from their opinion how you will feel about a film.

Daniel Clowes

#7. According to a recent study, ten percent of 'Star Trek' fans meet the psychological criteria for addiction. Deprived of their favourite show, some Trekkies disply withdrawal symptoms similar to drug addicts. Of course, the real difference is that drug addicts aren't nearly as annoying.

Jay Leno

#8. A truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria that result from it.

Slavoj Zizek

#9. Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile?

Franz Grillparzer

#10. The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#11. Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

William Eckhardt

#12. The Six Core Competencies do not define or offer a formula. Rather, they define structure driven by criteria for the elements that comprise it.

Larry Brooks

#13. The criteria of agency and ownership distinguish structural dissociation from other manifestations of insufficient integration such as intruding panic attacks in panic disorder or intrusions of negative cognitions in major depression.

Onno Van Der Hart

#14. An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.

Stephen Covey

#15. What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

Jack McKeon

#16. As a condition for entry into the Chinese market, Apple had to agree to the Chinese government's censorship criteria in vetting the content of all iPhone apps available for download on devices sold in mainland China.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#17. The longer people watch Netflix and the longer they stay members - they're the criteria of success for us.

Ted Sarandos

#18. Remember, results aren't the criteria for success - it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

John Wooden

#19. To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. ( ... ) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

Anthony Giddens

#20. The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand chess as a whole. But then again no one understands chess in its entirety. Perhaps talent is something else, in chess it is conditionality.

Alexander Morozevich

#21. It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

J.L. Austin

#22. I've spent my life comparing myself to everyone around me. I've made it an art form. I've developed detailed systems to calculate where I stand, based on GPA, body mass index, fashion, popularity, family income, etc. Based on this criteria, I have always fared somewhere in the safe middle.

Amy Reed

#23. You made new rules for the people you loved. They weren't subject to the same judgment criteria you reserved for the rest of the world. In some ways you were way easier on them, and in others, much harder.

Elizabeth Noble

#24. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.

Michael Specter

#25. Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Robert Kagan

#26. You can group the people you follow by subject, purpose or other criteria, and so sometimes listen to one lot, then other times another.

Rayne Hall

#27. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#28. Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Peter Drucker

#29. People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#30. Newton was not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings.

Leonard Mlodinow

#31. In any case, if recognition arising from proximate circumstances based upon fleeting criteria constitutes the sole measure of our personal significance, recognition will be both mercurial and insufficient.

Neal A. Maxwell

#32. Our Heavenly Father - you established the criteria for hospitality in your Holy Word and then provided the strength to apply it to daily living. Eternity will not be long enough for us to express our love and gratitude to you!

Pat Ennis

#33. So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.

Laurie Notaro

#34. I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

Kehinde Wiley

#35. The secret of happiness is living in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to live like me. I want to respect people's freedom but I defend my freedom.

Jose Mujica

#36. Here are some of the criteria I have used to decide what makes an equation great.

Dana Mackenzie

#37. Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.

Alice Schwarzer

#38. I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Carson

#39. If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Jeff Tweedy

#40. If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

Giovanni Ribisi

#41. Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.

Erin Kissane

#42. Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria

J.D. Greear

#43. Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

David Galenson

#44. Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

Mahlon Hoagland

#45. There cannot be any concessions on the matter of human rights or the criteria for visa liberalisation.

Francois Hollande

#46. Table 11-2: Prioritization Using Weighted Criteria Scoring

Howard Rohm

#47. Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

Henry Rosovsky

#48. I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

John Legend

#49. Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Stacy London

#50. Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

David Allen

#51. Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

Mark Steyn

#52. The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia.

Steven Cojocaru

#53. If we really want "Racial Harmony" in this country, it is time we start judging individuals by the standards of their behaviors and by the criteria of the law, not by the pigmentation of their skin or the past sins or struggles of their forefathers.

Henry Johnson Jr

#54. A wiseman invests in something that lasts forever; the only investment that meets this criteria is the word of God. Matthew 24:35.

Felix Wantang

#55. Popularity is a mathematical formula based on desirability criteria. High schools are a classic anthropological case study, and getting people to respond in the way you want is psychology. All science. It's just not the type of science that you're used to.

Eileen Cook

#56. It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another ... we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

Charles Darwin

#57. 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.

Kevin Rollins

#58. My criteria when looking for a role is that I will do anything that stands the chance of succeeding on the level it is intended to. After that, if it's a part I can do something personal with.

John Hurt

#59. One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

Baba Kalyani

#60. I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Jorge Garcia

#61. Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Michael Polanyi

#62. Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality

Paul Feyerabend

#63. At what point does querying diagnostic criteria tip over into mocking the unusual symptoms of people in very real distress?

Jon Ronson

#64. First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Nicolas Cage

#65. There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

Douglas Hofstadter

#66. When I evaluate a candidate, one of the most important criteria is what I call "the first derivative." Is this person learning? Is this candidate moving forward, or have they stagnated.

Eric Sink

#67. Youth, beauty, strenght: the criteria for physical lova are exactly the same as those of Nazism.

Michel Houellebecq

#68. ... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency.

Rogers Brubaker

#69. It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.

Gotz Aly

#70. Paul famously wrote, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."5 How often do we measure Christian ideas and beliefs by these criteria?

Tony Jones

#71. I passionately believe in heroes, but I think the world has changed its criteria in determining who it describes as a hero.

Richard Attenborough

#72. The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy.

Paul E. Miller

#73. Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#74. Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

Carl Sagan

#75. Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

Emily Dickinson

#76. Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Robert M. Hutchins

#77. And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.

Neil Cross

#78. One of the criteria by which we measure the worth of public figures is whether or not their brand of bull is in step with the current Zeitgeist.

John MacLachlan Gray

#79. Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.

Lewis Thomas

#80. Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.

Elton Gallegly

#81. In the visual arts, for example, the semiological approach to graphics provides a rigorous analysis of the visual means used by the artist. It defines the basic properties and laws governing the arts and suggests objective criteria for art criticism.

Jacques Bertin

#82. Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Robert Caro

#83. The desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

Suzanne La Follette

#84. There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.

Richard Blumenthal

#85. One cannot, without reflection, make some into bearers of goodness and others into miscreants, judging them by relative positive or negative criteria. These, like everything else, change according to historical circumstances, the character of a society, the time and subjective points of view.

Daisaku Ikeda

#86. On vague wording of drone strike criteria: Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That's gobbledygook.

Rand Paul

#87. As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to act is still a decision.

Seth Klarman

#88. I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.

Michael Ian Black

#89. Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Neal A. Maxwell

#90. My four criteria: I don't want to work with people I don't like; I don't want to work in a business I either don't like or don't understand; I don't want to work for nothing unless I choose to, and I do a fair amount of that already; and I want to have some fun.

Stuart Rose

#91. Traditional horizontal search engines cannot always identify the target audience, niche or vertical industry of a page or site. Vertical search engines address this issue by the nature of their design. They identify sites according to more specific criteria and sometimes even by human input.

Marc Ostrofsky

#92. All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.

Kevin Allen

#93. Love wasn't just a combination of matching physical and personal criteria. It was something you couldn't put into words, just a certainty, a twist of fate, a spark.

Megan Shepherd

#94. If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

Bob Goodlatte

#95. There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

Michael Josephson

#96. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

George Bernard Shaw

#97. To have full and multiple criteria is the best way to decide who is best prepared to be on that Olympic team.

Ashley Wagner

#98. Well, what does "good" mean anyway ... ? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation.

John Searle

#99. The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

Federico Tesio

#100. The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy