Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done.
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Today, presence on social media has become a yardstick to be cast - the parameter to get a job.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
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.
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.
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.