Yardsticks Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

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… — Joseph Brodsky
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends,… — Barbara Bush
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… — Herb Caen
...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the… — Muhammad Asad
Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness. — H. W. Janson
It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never… — Prince Charles
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… — Emma Goldman
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh
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… — Barbara Walters
I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I… — Dara Wier
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… — Hannah Arendt
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… — George Soros
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… — Peter Drucker
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… — Neale Donald Walsch
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures itâ€™s morals — Jimmy Swaggart
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness;Â by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. — Paramahansa Yogananda
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… — Dainin Katagiri
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… — Steven Pressfield
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… — Wendell Phillips
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky

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