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  • How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal illness and the grieving of the recently bereft. Yet it is a good day, for the simple fact that no one died upon it. We are brought to a sorry state, that we measure what is good by such a shortened yardstick.

    Sorry   Good Day   Simple  
    Geraldine Brooks (2002). “Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague”, p.123, Penguin
  • Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.

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

    Successful   People   Use  
  • Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

    "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.
  • My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

    Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.103, Vintage
  • the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

  • ...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 potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love...'

    Faith   Christian   Islam  
  • 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.

    Essence   Judging   May  
    Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.96, University of Chicago Press
  • 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 and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!

    Leon Trotsky (1968). “Their morals and ours: and , The moralists and sycophants against Marxism”
  • You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

    Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com
  • justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

    Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • 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, Byron Wien, Krisztina Koenen (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, p.312, John Wiley & Sons
  • 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.

    Men   Doe   Yardsticks  
  • 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 will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave.

    Mean   Thinking   Games  
  • Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

    Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press
  • I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

  • I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

    Kindness   Real   Grief  
  • Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

    Business   School   Car  
  • Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks.

    Space   Flying   Use  
    Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.209, Simon and Schuster
  • We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Land   People   Creative  
  • I've certainly stayed a marginal figure, though I became a member of the "surveillance committee" fairly early on. I can actually live pretty well with this, because I'm allowed to work in peace - except when I have to give strings of interviews... And also, I've never sought a position of power in the music business. I became a teacher not so as to found a Kagel School, but to transmit knowledge. My work as a composer should be the only yardstick by which my contribution can be measured.

  • 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 (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.
  • 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, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”
  • Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

    "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.
  • Money has, as we know, no value in itself. It is a convenient yardstick for a large number of material values. But the health and life of an individual as well as the health of a nation cannot be measured by that yardstick. If we, entrusted with protecting and defending the health of the population, give in to a salesman's scale of values we are lost.

    Health   Numbers   Giving  
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