Name: Our dangerous obsession...
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Description: Because even if there were equality of opportunity, the idea that we are captains of our own destiny disguises a much darker reality for young people that they are subject to an almost ongoing economic tribunal. Metrics, rankings, lead tables have emerged as the yardsticks for which merit can be quantified

Herb Caen

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

American Journalist

Barbara Bush

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.

American First Lady

Gustav Stresemann

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.

German Politician

James Wan

I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.

Australian Producer

Joseph Brodsky

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.

American Poet

Jason Fried

One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.

American Businessman

Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Canadian Author

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

American President

John Madden

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

American Entertainer

Steve Jobs

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

Used to compare a quality or feature against the general expectation or another entity.

Comparison Standard

Often used metaphorically to refer to non-physical measurements, like success or quality.

Metaphorical Use

Indicates an evaluative framework within a specific field or activity.

Evaluative Tool

Refers to an actual measuring stick one yard in length, commonly used in carpentry and tailoring.

Physical Measurement

Relates to the imperial system of measurement, which is not commonly used outside the U.S. and U.K.

Imperial System

While a measuring tool, it's often used in everyday life for quick, non-precise measurements.

Everyday Usage

 Because even if there were equality of opportunity, the idea that we are captains of our own destiny disguises a much darker reality for young people that they are subject to an almost ongoing economic tribunal. Metrics, rankings, lead tables have emerged as the yardsticks for which merit can be quantified

Our dangerous obsession...

 when she tells anyone she works with shark brains she always gets the same question so are sharks smart that's what i asked it's not a question she likes intelligence is a finicky metric it depends on your yardstick so if it's oh you're smart if you can do calculus then you might

The Surprising...

 only becomes a problem as we said when you're facing kind of imminent default and your options are limited because it's in the news what's your ear assessment how sustainable is a Greek debt now it's a good question if we take that yardstick its sustainable right now

Pulling back the curtain...

 know could hold the private systems to a yardstick we can see how cheap it could public systems were allowed to operate we had never seen a monopoly like the depredations of electricians in the history of the world they lied they misled everybody they had incredible

Making internet widely...

 You can always fool yourself into seeing a decline if you compare bleeding headlines of the present with rose-tinted images of the past. What does the trajectory of the world look like when we measure well-being over time using a constant yardstick?

Is the world getting...

 Let's say you're negotiating for a salary in a new job. Some people, they determine they ask based on their past salary. That isn't a good yardstick. You may end up asking for too much or too little. Instead, find out the range of what is possible.

3 steps to getting what...

 Haram the third world oil but nobody ever really talks about our foods and it's funny because our food is a big part of our culture in fact the yardstick for stocks of any Nigerian party is the amount and the quality of food that you serve at it

Talking about good food ...

 when she began noticing a distinct correlation between their brightness and their blinking pattern. That correlation made it possible to measure the distance of stars for the very first time, furnishing the yardstick of the universe.

Humanity's Search for...

 So the NGOs become part of a public government system, rather than independent of it. One advantage of that is that you can allocate money coherently. Another is, you can make NGOs accountable. You can use yardstick competition,

Paul Collier's new rules...

 other planes in the air he sits behind engines the reliability of which measured by yardsticks of the past is all but unbelievable i myself still fly a wasp motor which has carried me over the north atlantic part of the

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