Criteria Quotes - Page 15

• Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

  David Lodge

  Age, Modern, Cathedrals

  David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA

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• I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

  Ian Stewart

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

  Richard Cecil

  Lying, Men, Gold

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.250

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• Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

  Francis George

  Principles, Process, Handle

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I've really been sort of focused on acting and I feel really lucky because great projects sort of keep coming my way. I guess the criteria that I look for, it gets increasingly difficult because when you have the privilege of working with someone like Diane [Keaton], it's kind of like, 'Well, where do you go from there.'

  Mandy Moore

  Acting, Looks, Way

  "Mandy Moore Interviewed - 'Because I Said So'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 1, 2007.

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• But on balance, a performer wants to feel that there's something there which stands out because you put a lot of effort into it, a lot of energy and a lot of yourself into something. I feel pretty successful about some movies I've been in that have not been greeted with a lot of enthusiasm and I do trust my own criteria.

  Ben Affleck

  Successful, Effort, Balance

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not sure what it would mean to have "made it." Made what? Yes, I can make a decent living in show business, so if that's the criteria, then I've made it. But that doesn't feel that important to me. The stuff that matters to me are the new challenges. I know that sounds hokey, but it's true.

  Michael Ian Black

  Mean, Yes I Can, Challenges

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.

  Allen W. Wood

  Action, Humans, Human Actions

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Quality, Ease, Longevity

  The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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• I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.

  Robert Englund

  People, May, Sticks

  Source: graveconcernsezine.com

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• Hillary Clinton's position on policy on markets and trade is very plain, which is we'll do trade deals but only if they meet three criteria, increase American jobs and wages and are they good for national security. If they are and if we can enforce them, then trade deals are okay. If not, we can't embrace them.

  Tim Kaine

  Jobs, Three, Wages

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

  Keith Ellison

  Vision, Important, Chairs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair.

  Keith Ellison

  People, Inspire, Vision

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Intellectual, Use

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• Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

  Richard Dawkins

  Brain, Natural, Memes

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.167, Oxford University Press

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• There is no objective criteria for either success or failure. People who achieve their goals are successful, those who don't are not.

  Michael Josephson

  Successful, People, Goal

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• Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

  Bill Gates

  Philosophy, Ideas, Individual

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• Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

  Bertrand Russell

  Principles, Ethics, Virtue

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• What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

  Jack McKeon

  Speed, Should, Percentages

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• Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.

  Doug Casey

  Art, Real, Years

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• My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.

  Stephen Lang

  Directors, Different, Roles

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• I judge a woman and a horse by the same criteria: legs, head and rear end.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Horse, Judging, Legs

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• If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Play, People, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

  Bent Saether

  Reason, Projects, Inclusion

  Source: thequietus.com

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