Yardstick Quotations

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

The refinement of an individual is measured by the yardstick of sense control.

The only yardstick of objectively assessing, evaluating and commenting on (the deal) is India's national interest. Based on this, it is our view that the government has surrendered on two important counts.

We've suggested to the court that a sweeping big deal can be accomplished in a single sentence, that the size of the measure is not the only yardstick by which that question should be measured.

I think that being teammates with Tony is a very good yardstick to try to measure up to. I think it just makes you try harder to be a better team. I certainly want to be a better driver, and whether we were teammates with the U.S. Army team or not, obviously we would be competing against them on the track. But, being a little bit closer to them than just another competitor, it definitely makes you want to be better. It's a good opportunity to keep you motivated to make everything perfect all the time.

Our actual level of performance has been as good as I can recall in the last five or six years. We've just not had enough breaks and results have slipped away from us. This game will be a good yardstick for us. Not one single person in the land expects us to win.

Right now, success is judged by how much energy is used. Think about it, the person who is successful has a really big car; they take really expensive vacations; they have a really big house. Now we have got to have another yardstick by which we measure success because success can't continue to be measured by how much energy we use, do you think?

Statistically, it's hard to judge on numbers as low as 100 from year to year. A better yardstick is the overall number of claims that were investigated.

My own guide is always what I find interesting. If it's something that makes me think: 'I'd like to see this' then that's the yardstick I apply. Obviously that doesn't satisfy everybody.

We think we're setting the standard for performance. If you see what people have done in other bankruptcies, they've obviously looked at our contracts and things like that as a yardstick to measure their own bankruptcy process.

We're going to try to determine what happened and how it happened and hopefully learn lessons on how to prevent it from happening again. We'll take as much time as we need to help move the yardstick of safety forward.

The yen is a yardstick for sentiment. We think that Japan is having a bad situation, so you sell Japan, you sell the yen.

As runners-up in the African Championship, Egypt are a demanding yardstick for us.

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In retrospect, 'Pulp Fiction' isn't just the template for everything Tarantino has done but the yardstick by which everything else he does is measured one way or another.

He's the yardstick of how good we can get. He does things with his golf stick that we cannot do,

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem -- and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?