#yardstick

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I have only 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

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

#always #church #cultural #ethical #into

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ↗

— John Madden

#being #champion #else #only #our

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

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