One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe
It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it. — Mandy Hale
One is rated by others as he rates himself. — Proverbs
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. — Tony Robbins
The test of true competence is the end result. — L. Ron Hubbard
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. — Carl R. Rogers
Short Criterion Quotes
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. — Mahlon Hoagland
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker
For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable. — Brassai
The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day. — Umar
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results. — John Rawls
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. — Edmund Burke
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated. — Albert Low
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Criteria Quotes
Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic. — Francis Schaeffer
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
Any method of negotiation may be fairly judged by three criteria: It should produce a wise agreement if agreement is possible. It should be efficient. And it should improve or at least not damage the relationship between the parties. — William Ury
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. — Robert A. Heinlein
We’ve basically crawled every scientific publication on healthspan and lifespan – something like 2,000 publications. And we take each study, apply a number of criteria to it – some are animal models, so we make that discernment – and then we prioritize. — Bryan Johnson
The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred. — Federico Tesio
Separate the People from the Problem. Focus on Interests, Not Positions. Invent Options for Mutual Gain. Insist on Using Objective Criteria. — William Ury
I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns. — Jeff Bingaman
I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer. — Sayings
Basically with everything, I choose my criteria based on what can be easy. — Akira Toriyama
It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time. — Tommy Douglas
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington
A military is built to fight. Our military must regard combat capability as the criterion to meet in all its work and focus on how to win when it is called on. — Xi Jinping
In the twentieth century, government control of money has meant a new and very important criterion being added to salability, and that is the salability of money according to the will of its holder and not some other party. — Saifedean Ammous
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists' is to make a metaphysical utterance which cannot be either true or false. And by the same criterion, no sentence which purports to describe the nature of a transcendent god can possess any literal significance. — A.J. Ayer
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress. — Bert Hellinger
Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success. — Hrithik Roshan
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. — Jhumpa Lahiri
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be strategist is the degree of originality of his conceptions. It makes little difference whether this originality is carried to excess, as was the case with Steinitz and Nimzowitsch. — Alexander Alekhine
Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. — John Rawls
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth. — Helena Rubinstein
Will TV kill the theater? If the programs I have seen, save for "Kukla, Fran and Ollie," the ball games and the fights, are any criterion, the theater need not wake up in a cold sweat. — Tallulah Bankhead
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. — Richard Dawkins
Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created. — Malcolm X
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests. — Bede Griffiths
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? — Peace Pilgrim
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. — John Quincy Adams
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life. — Stephen Covey
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use. — Donald A. Norman
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. — James Madison
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood. — Ivan Chermayeff
The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company. — Benjamin Graham
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — Anton Chekhov
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. — Ramana Maharshi
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence. — Charles De Gaulle
A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful. — Edwin H Friedman
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments. — Philip Dormer Stanhope
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. — Barack Obama
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. — Denis Waitley
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing. — Epicurus
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience. — Maurice Allais
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number. — Henry Petroski
Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment. — Michael Polanyi
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. — Carl R. Rogers
The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism. — Albert Einstein
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. — Carl Rogers
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility. — William Stanley Jevons
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