Criteria Quotes - Page 12

Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.

Richard Heinberg

Oil, Impact, Environmental

8 Copy quote
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.

Rosemary Daniell

Writing, Order, Kind

44 Copy quote
I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

John Cusack

Time, Liars, Lying

6 Copy quote
As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

Numbers, Increase, Mets

"Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

9 Copy quote

Show source
Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

Frank Zappa

Military, School, People

155 Copy quote
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

Jack Kerouac

Writing, Judging, Feelings

"The portable Jack Kerouac".

4 Copy quote

Show source
The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Giambattista Vico

Ideas, Mind, Doe

Giambattista Vico, Leon Pompa (1982). “Vico”, p.55, CUP Archive

11 Copy quote

Show source
My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

Kathryn Bigelow

Light, Television, Comedy

4 Copy quote
A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

R. H. Tawney

Facts, Human Nature, Economic

'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)

19 Copy quote

Show source
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Alphonse de Lamartine

Mean, Greatness, Men

"Histoire de la Turquie", Volume 1, (p. 277), 1854.

44 Copy quote

Show source
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

Christopher Alexander

Men, Names, Roots

Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.9, New York : Oxford University Press

7 Copy quote

Show source
Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.

Del LaGrace Volcano

Growing Up, Artist, Years

9 Copy quote
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

Steven Pinker

Cat, Judging, Ordinary

Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.409, Penguin UK

4 Copy quote

Show source
I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

Ludwig Feuerbach

Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

"The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

26 Copy quote

Show source
There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition.

Richard Blumenthal

Simple, Reality, Today

16 Copy quote
...I always feel it's necessary to look at my images from two distances. Here is my criterion: If I can look at it from a distance and then come up close but find nothing more to see, it's printed too large. It's not giving me any new information when I come up to it.

Bruce Barnbaum

Photography, Distance, Two

4 Copy quote
Above all we need, particularly as children, the reassuring presence of a visible community, an intimate group that enfolds us with understanding and love, and that becomes an object of our spontaneous loyalty, as a criterion and point of reference for the rest of the human race.

Lewis Mumford

Loyalty, Children, Race

8 Copy quote
Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

Kim Garst

Powerful, Caring, Fake

FaceBook post by Kim Garst from Nov 12, 2013

7 Copy quote

Show source
The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.

Denis Waitley

Attitude, Successful, Aptitude

17 Copy quote
In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Alan Dershowitz

Real, Evil, Choices

19 Copy quote
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Edmund Burke

Success, Mind, Vulgar

9 Copy quote
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force.

Bertrand Russell

Men, Two, Issues

Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

31 Copy quote

Show source
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.

Mahnaz Afkhami

Future, Equality, Rights

7 Copy quote
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

John Wooden

Achievement, Effort, Important

John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.115, ReadHowYouWant.com

7 Copy quote

Show source
Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

Mother Teresa

Jesus, Finals, Spirit

4 Copy quote