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• What? You're thinking for yourself? You're deciding on your own? You're applying your own yardsticks, your own judgments, your own values? Who do you think you are, anyway? And, indeed, that is precisely the question you are answering.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Thinking

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.122, Penguin

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• 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.

  Earl Nightingale

  Wise, Opportunity, Risk

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part III”, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Karl Evang

  Health, Numbers, Giving

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

  H. W. Janson

  Art, Greatness, Crafts

  "History of Art".

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• ...the Muslims of recent times had fallen very short indeed of the ideals of their faith, ...nothing could be more erroneous than to measure the potentialities of Muhammad's message by the yardstick of present-day Muslim life and thought - just as he [Shaykh Mustafa al-Maraghi] said, 'it would be erroneous to see in the Christians' unloving behavior toward one another a refutation of Christ's message of love...'

  Muhammad Asad

  Faith, Christian, Islam

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Time, Yesterday, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Wealth, Stills

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• 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?

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Thinking, Funny Marriage, Wish

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• 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.

  Herb Caen

  Use, Paper, Matter

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• It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

  Prince Charles

  Taken, Years, Agriculture

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• The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Spiritual, Realizing, Life Is

  Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Success, Wealth, Prestige

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

  Barbara Walters

  Cuba, Earth, Literacy

  "'Behind the Bias': How Media's Hostility Towards GOP Began". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

  Dee Hock

  Secret, Surrender, Never Surrender

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.32, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

  Tom Landry

  Successful, People, Use

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• 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.

  Wendell Phillips

  Lying, Ignorance, Giving

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• I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Entrepreneur, Want

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• As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Issues, People, Adequate

  Aung San Suu Kyi, University of Oxford. Refugee Studies Programme (1993). “Towards a true refuge”

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• Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.

  Mary Oliver

  Differences, Soul, Stubborn

  Mary Oliver (2005). “Long Life: Essays and Other Writings”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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

  Laura Huxley

  Giver, Receiver

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• I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.

  Ron Suskind

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

  Aamir Khan

  Office, Helping, Film

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Real, Mean, Relative Value

  Louis O. Kelso, Patricia Hetter Kelso (1967). “Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals”, New York : Vintage Books

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• Having taught economics courses at private vocational schools and universities, I have always had a problem with GNP as a yardstick of prosperity. GNP is improved by increases in questionable activities such as consumption of cigarettes and the production of weapons. Moreover, a substantial increase in car accidents will favorably affect GNP because more funerals, hospital visits, car repairs, and new car purchases will result.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, School, Car

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• The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, People

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