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• My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

  Peter Cushing

  Stars, War, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker never would have played anything but swing music. There comes a point at which you have to stand up and say, this is what I have to do.

  Branford Marsalis

  Swings, Use, Care

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• In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.

  Upton Sinclair

  Competition, Facts, Tests

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.329, Xist Publishing

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• It has been said that a country’s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.

  Tommy Douglas

  Country, Greatness, World

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• Our relationship with each other is the criterion the world uses to judge whether our message is truthful - Christian community is the final apologetic.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Judging, Community

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• The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Truth, Acknowledge, Prepared

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of the throat and mouth. Then the first criterion for language that I had learned as a student—it is spoken and heard—was wrong; and, more important, language did not depend on our ability to speak and hear but must be a more abstract capacity of the brain. It was the brain that had language, and if that capacity was blocked in one channel, it would emerge through another.

  Harlan Lane

  Hands, Brain, Important

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• I want to tell everyone, 'You're perfectly fine right now.' No one told me that.. I hope people can think, 'I'm great the way I am. I'm doing fine. Even if I can't reach the criteria of success measured and necessitated by society, even if I'm weeded out, I'm beautiful the way I am. I'm pretty, I'm perfectly fine without having to think about other people's opinions and stereotypes.'

  Lee Hyori

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

  Federico Tesio

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  George Washington

  True Friend, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.39, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that are produced by tensions and anxieties The capacity to find more satisfaction in giving than receiving The capacity to relate to other people in a consistent manner with mutual satisfaction and helpfulness The capacity to sublimate, to direct one's instinctive hostile energy into creative and constructive outlets The capacity to love.

  William C. Menninger

  Reality, Emotional, Maturity

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• The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Culture, Convenience

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• I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.

  Dave Franco

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Character, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press

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• I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think probably winning these things [an Oscar] can be a bit of a curse depending on who you are and how you think. But I haven't been on a journey to get anywhere in particular, so that hasn't changed. And my criteria for choosing projects hasn't changed.

  Cate Blanchett

  Winning, Journey, Thinking

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.

  Rita Dove

  Notebook, Inspiration, Writing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• If there's a criteria that really gets me interested in a work besides any type of personal interaction with the theme, it's if I feel like this is the right piece of work for that director at that moment in their career.

  Edward Norton

  Careers, Directors, Pieces

  "Interview: 'Leaves of Grass' Star Edward Norton and Director Tim Blake Nelson". filmschoolrejects.com. March 28, 2010.

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• Well, what does "good" mean anyway? As Wittgenstein suggested, "good," like "game," has a family of meanings. Prominent among them is this one: "meets the criteria or standards of assessment or evaluation."

  John Searle

  Mean, Assessment, Games

  "Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language". Book by John Searle, 1969.

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• Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.

  Richard Dawkins

  Distance, Science, Vanity

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Arbitrary, Rewards, Conformity

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• Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

  Michael Polanyi

  Coherence, Judgment, Conclusion

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Individuality, Woe

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• Things have a behavior online, whereas in print, there is a single canonical expression for them, but online everything responds to different criteria or has inherent states to it based on that criteria. So, you have to design that in a different way. It's a completely different dynamic even though it may look similar.

  Khoi Vinh

  Expression, Design, May

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

  H. G. Wells

  Ideas, Political, Brain

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.15078, Delphi Classics

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