Top 79 Yardstick Quotes & Sayings

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

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.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.

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.

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

I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites.

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?

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.

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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.

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

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.

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

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

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.

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.

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

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

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?

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

If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us.

We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I want to feel happy doing a good film and don't want to look at cinema with a materialistic yardstick.

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

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.

I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

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.

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.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

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.

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.

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.

One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My yardstick is how somebody treats me.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

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.

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

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.

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 call things untrue because they are marvelous, but give them a fair consideration.

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

I was guided by Allah (God) to give a yardstick to the voting public, particularly Black people as to what will set that candidate apart from others.

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

I must have been six or seven - standing in front of a full-length mirror with a yardstick, pretending to be John Lennon. In my head, I was always going to be a singer, and The Beatles were probably the first musicians that had a major impact.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

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

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.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for; it's opportunity. And once we begin looking for that, we find it on every side. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.