Quotes About Yardstick

#1. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.

Kenneth Keniston

#2. Justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

Carson McCullers

#3. There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

Karl Lehmann

#4. 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.

Louis Farrakhan

#5. We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

A.J. Cronin

#6. The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Therese Of Lisieux

#7. 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.

Kobo Abe

#8. Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Ann Voskamp

#9. Within half an hour almost all the women were drunk, a yardstick Laing had long used to measure the success of a party.

J.G. Ballard

#10. The ability to analyze others' arguments can also serve as a yardstick for when to withdraw from discussions that will most likely be futile.

Ali Almossawi

#11. Self-correction makes me check the ruler of my life against the yardstick of my inner voice. I acknowledge when I don't measure up. Self-correction is an ongoing process. If done often enough, I can stop myself from straying off the path.

Stella Payton

#12. To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#13. History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Gustav Stresemann

#14. Don't allow money to become the yardstick by which you measure the worth of the world around you!

Andrew James Pritchard

#15. I didn't want to be the yardstick of righteousness; I was too lacking.

Amy Harmon

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

#17. If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Khalil Gibran

#18. 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.

Soren Kierkegaard

#19. There is one Christian commandment that can be used as a yardstick ... 'Thou shalt not kill.' That is clear enough ... 'Thou shalt not kill' says you shall not kill your neighbor no matter how you feel about him.

Seth

#20. Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Fausto Cercignani

#21. Why shouldn't we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word "obscenity." If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.

Billy Graham

#22. Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

#23. That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.

Robert Hamer

#24. We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

Soko Morinaga

#25. Do not take the yardstick of your ignorance to measure what the ancients knew, and call everything which you do not know lies. Do not call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

Wendell Phillips

#26. It's hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you're the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.

Brenna Yovanoff

#27. In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

Warren Buffett

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

John Madden

#29. Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

Joseph Brodsky

#30. 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.

Michael Azerrad

#31. Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.

Barbara Bush

#32. Even the healthiest of people struggle to measure the world and themselves with an accurate yardstick, as the power of sin infects everyone's mind as well as his or her actions.

Adam S. McHugh

#33. Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Jasper Fforde

#34. A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author ... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Herb Caen

#35. she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

Jodi Picoult

#36. The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Breyten Breytenbach

#37. Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.

David Ben-Gurion

#38. The task of writing consists primarily in recognizing the distance between oneself and the things around one. It is not sensitivity one needs, but a yardstick.

Haruki Murakami

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

Jimmy Swaggart

#40. From the cradle to the grave, you are measured against the ever-present yardstick of the average, judged according to how closely you approximate it or how far you are able to exceed it.

Todd Rose

#41. Love is a Yardstick [10w]
Love is a yardstick by which we can measure our heartbreak.

Beryl Dov

#42. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Laura Huxley

#43. Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

Dee Hock

#44. For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

Upasana Saraf

#45. The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

Tom Landry

#46. There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

Duke Ellington

#47. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Steve Jobs

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

Earl Nightingale

#49. No matter what town you are in, there is some social order and a different yardstick to chart. In New York, people create things like schools and speaking languages and second homes.

Jill Kargman

#50. The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

George Soros

#51. My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Truman Capote

#52. 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.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#53. Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

Tamora Pierce

#54. I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.

Cate Blanchett

#55. The best way to choose what to keep and what to throw away is to take each item in one's hand and ask: "Does this spark joy?" If it does, keep it. If not, dispose of it. This is not only the simplest but also the most accurate yardstick by which to judge.

Marie Kondo

#56. Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

H. W. Janson

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#58. If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

Pope Francis

#59. The main yardstick for measuring life and its essence is quality of life.

Sunday Adelaja

#60. The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#61. In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.

Steve Erickson

#62. Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

Michael Azerrad

#63. 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.

Ezra Taft Benson

#64. There is no yardstick for measuring love; nevermind that the heart doesn't follow rules

Franklin Veaux

#65. Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#66. For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.

Barbara Walters

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

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#68. I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Nicolas Roeg

#69. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

Dainin Katagiri

#70. I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

Madhur Bhandarkar

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

Carsten Jensen