Yardstick Quotes

You can only judge him by his accomplishments, not the arbitrary yardsticks thrown around here in the run-up to the presidential campaign. - Eric Ueland

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

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. - Bill Lemley

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. - Mark Johnson

We are being judged by a new yardstick: not just how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how we handle ourselves and each other. - Daniel Goleman

We also look forward to England A hosting Pakistan at Canterbury later in the summer. [They] will become an important yardstick for the selectors in measuring how our best young players shape up against top quality opposition. - David Graveney

This regulation will play an important part in the implementation of the food hygiene regulations, as the criteria can be used as a yardstick to test whether the good hygiene practices and HACCP principles are being properly applied. - Markos Kyprianou

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

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

The U.S. housing market appears to be gradually losing steam under the weight of higher mortgage rates... Even so, the market remains exceptionally healthy by any yardstick. - Sherry Cooper