#yardstick

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#environment #excellence #expected #people #quality

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

#coworkers #even #fact #family #friends

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. ↗

— Robert Hamer

#done #else #everything #i #picture

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

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

#every #guide #individual #know #language

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

#between #bit #bond #civilisation #lost

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#involved #measure #measures #opportunity #risk

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

#evolution #his #history #individual #man

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#measures #minister #morals #nation #really

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #good #i #major #major problem