Yardstick Quotations | Page 2

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

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.

A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .

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.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

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.

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.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

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

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.