Quotes About Yardsticks

#1. Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

Charles Lindbergh

#2. What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

Peter Drucker

#4. Even a committed realist will concede that there are many situations where an absolute standard of truth is unavailable. And yet, confronted with such situations, we often continue to act as if right and wrong are the relevant yardsticks.

Kathryn Schulz

#5. Honesty and integrity are the yardsticks by which we measure our intrinsic value.

Orly Wahba

#6. As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#7. Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

Emma Goldman

#8. Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

Hannah Arendt

#9. The remarkable thing," said Doc, "isn't that they put their tails up in the air - the really incredibly remarkable thing is that we find it remarkable. We can only use ourselves as yardsticks. If we did something as inexplicable and strange we'd probably be praying - so maybe they're praying.

John Steinbeck

#10. I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

Ron Suskind

#11. Your mother has been using the old yardsticks all her life, and she can't change now.

Stephen King

#12. I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

Steven Pressfield

#13. A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .

Peter Drucker

#14. Miracles don't exist. There is cause and effect, dreams and reality. Living and Dead. Your hope is absurd. Your romanticism, embarrassing

Isaac Marion

#15. Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Seth Godin

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

Laura Huxley

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

Dee Hock

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

Tom Landry

#19. To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

Honore De Balzac

#20. Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#21. I like women with style to wear my shoes.

Manolo Blahnik

#22. In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.

Narendra Modi

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

#24. 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

#25. I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

E.B. White

#26. Earth would stand out as strange and perturbed, with something in the air that geology and chemistry alone could not explain, with some huge ongoing, active chemical disturbance.

David Grinspoon

#27. There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Michel De Montaigne

#28. 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

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

Fausto Cercignani

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

#32. Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

Pietro Aretino

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

A.J. Cronin

#34. The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

John Steinbeck

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

Carson McCullers

#36. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.

Johnny Hunt