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We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality. -- A.J. Cronin
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. -- Breyten Breytenbach
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. -- Steve Jobs
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. -- Earl Nightingale
The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. -- John Madden
Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. -- Charles Lindbergh
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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. -- Ann Voskamp
Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another. -- Lennart Meri
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. -- Karl Lehmann
A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people . -- Peter Drucker
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. -- Joseph Brodsky
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. -- Warren Buffett
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. -- Gustav Stresemann
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. -- Barbara Bush
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. -- Emma Goldman
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs for groundnuts. And yet I perceive that this same man is a maimed God. He is condemned under penalty to measure eternity with an hourglass and infinity with a yardstick and what is more, he very nearly does it. -- James Branch Cabell
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
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

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