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That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
Robert Hamer / Film Director
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
Breyten Breytenbach / Writer
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Human Rights
National Interests
Rights
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The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Jimmy Swaggart / Televangelist
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Today, presence on social media has become a yardstick to be cast - the parameter to get a job.
Priyanshu Chatterjee /
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs / Entrepreneur
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Leadership
Motivational
Quality
Work
Morning
Environment
Excellence
Expected
People
Used
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
John Madden / Football Player
Champion
Gratitude
Soccer
Teamwork
Anything Else
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You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
Earl Nightingale / Author
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Involved
Risk
Together
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I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.
Vaani Kapoor /
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I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
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I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.
Eva Marie Saint / Film Actress
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I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower / 34Th U.s. President
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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 / Film Director
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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 / Author
Beaten
Soul
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Life Your Own
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One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
Jason Fried / Entrepreneur
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Remote
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When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.
Rajkumar Hirani / Film Director
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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 / Writer
Civilisation
Lost
Ties
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Bond
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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 / Poet
Language
Ought
World
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At Least One
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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 /
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Church
Ethical
Measuring
Utility
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Transform
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Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.
Om Malik /
Numbers
Serving
Users
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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 / United States Secretary Of Health And Human Services
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Resources
Agricultural
Forming
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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 / Novelist
Pulp
Retrospect
Tarantino
Everything Else
Measured
Pulp Fiction
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I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.
James Wan / Film Producer
Measuring
Myself Me People
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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 /
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Languages
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Homes
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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 / German Politician
Men
Different
Use
Time History Man
Measure
Unit
Uses
Whereas
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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.
Barbara Bush / Former First Lady Of The United States
Family
Friends
Success
Congratulations
Important
People
Sight
Teaching
Way
Most
Will
Success Family Your
Along
Never
Coworkers
How
Even
Fact
Lose
Meet
Other
Strangers
The Most Important
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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 / Actress
Anxious
Good Job
Needy
Good Great Me
Good Great Look
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For me, it's about the impact that the role has in the film overall. Less or more screen time, whether I get to romance the hero, is not the yardstick I go by. If my part is strong enough, then why not?
Huma Qureshi /
Romance
Why Not
Time Hero Me
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We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires a shared commitment between innovators and the insurance plans that are harder pressed to offer these advances to the poor.
Scott Gottlieb /
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Plans
Advances
Insurance
Measured
Pressed
Shared
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It has always been accepted, even in pronouncements by the Supreme Court that the Court and its judgements can be subjected to strong, even trenchant criticism. Is the same yardstick not available for comments on the use or abuse of the Court's powers of contempt?
Prashant Bhushan /
Abuse
Accepted
Available
Contempt
Court
Criticism
Supreme
Supreme Court
Comments
Judgements
Powers
Subjected
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You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Co2
Dramatic
Excess
Replicate
Sea
Rise
Lab
Measure
Oceans
Thermometer
Warming
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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 / Journalist
Admire
Matter
Paper
Use
Author
Beautifully
Column
Sell
Newspaper
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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 /
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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.
Mamata Banerjee / Indian Politician
Change
Be Patient
Flower
Limited Time
Patient
Plant
Process
Static
Tree
Then
Only
Assess
Bloom
Cannot
Flowers
Continuous
Frame
Fruits
Ground
Immediately
Large
Limited
Plucked
See
Sown
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