One Size Fits All Quotes

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  James Dyson

  Lazy, Size, Fit

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• We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

  David Agus

  Discovery, Needs, Attention

  "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.

  John Stuart Mill

  Book, Marketing, Way

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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Life Is Short, Ideas

  "Thank You and You're Welcome". Book by Kanye West and J. Sakiya Sandifer, 2009.

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• Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.

  Eric Topol

  Medicine, People, Population

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• The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.

  Melissa McBride

  Fighting, Different, Size

  "'Walking Dead' Dissection: Melissa McBride Talks Carol's Devastating Decision". Interview with Gene Page, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 16, 2014.

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• Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

  Amy Chua

  Parent, Size, Fit

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• What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Greg Gutfeld (2012). “The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage”, p.140, Crown Forum

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• I didn't just start with ...local city officials because I knew that they would understand the problem. I started with them because I knew that our cities, towns and counties would be a key part of the solution to this issue. ...there is no one-size-fits all policy or program that can solve this problem. And Washington certainly does not have all the answers. Instead, many of the best, most innovative, most effective solutions start in our city halls and our towns and our county councils.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Issues, Keys

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• I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

  Tony Judt

  Believe, Should Have, Political

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• We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Creating, People

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• Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

  Lamar Alexander

  Size, Fit, Jackets

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• Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

  Phil McGraw

  Inspirational Life, Unique, Effort

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• In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Christmas, Money, Size

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• Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

  Tyler Jacks

  Cancer, Size, Fit

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  Florence King

  Women, White, Hot Flashes

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• I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NPR's Interview With House Speaker Paul Ryan On Poverty And Politics". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 15, 2016.

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• I think the big myth about habits, and happiness too, is that there's somehow a magic "one size fits all" solution. That, "If it works for you it's going to work for me," and it's just a matter of figuring out what that habit would be, whether that's do it first thing in the morning, or start small, or do it for thirty days, or give yourself a cheat day.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Morning, Thinking, Giving

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• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

  David Mamet

  Country, Adventure, Cities

  "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

  Sarah Palin

  Top Down, Government, Common Sense

  "Palin gets tough on Democrats' health care proposals" by Alex Mooney, www.cnn.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Since I spent eighteen years of my life as a child, and nine years of that life as a pretty sexually active gay child, my complaint against the current attitudes is that they work mightily to silence the voices of children first and secondarily ignore what adults have to say who have been through these situations. One size fits all is never the way to handle any situation with a human dimension. Many, many children-and I was one of them-are desperate to establish some sort of sexual relation with an older and even adult figure.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Attitude, Children, Gay

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• You talk to people who serve you the food the same way you talk to the people you eat the food with. You talk to people who work for you the same way you talk to the people you work for. It's a one-size-fits-all proposition.

  Claudia Shear

  People, Way, Size

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• When you are setting yourself up for success, above all put on love, because love never fails and with one-size-fits-all solution to every situation you will ever encounter.

  Joo

  Love Is, Encounters, Size

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• English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

  William Safire

  Size, Language, Fit

  William Safire (1981). “On language”

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