Yardsticks Quotations

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures it’s morals

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

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it.

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

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

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

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

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

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

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

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.