Criteria Quotes - Page 17

• In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Wrestling, Creative

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• Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

  John Rawls

  Thinking, Citizens, Reason

  John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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• As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jobs, White, Black

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D'Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• The idea here is for communities to decide how they meet these criteria for becoming sustainable economically, ecologically and socially.Through a community decision-making process. And exactly how that would be configured, you know, remains to be established. The process of community budgeting, participatory budgeting, is one model that's been suggested.

  Jill Stein

  Ideas, Community, Decision

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

  Mahlon Hoagland

  Simplicity, Simple Life, Simple Beauty

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• I admit I love clothes and I buy clothes. But they sit in my closet. I like a pair of comfy pants, flip flops and a t- shirt. And when we pick a restaurant, my criteria is: Where can I wear this?.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Clothes, Pants, Pairs

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• One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Adventure, Science, Simplicity

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• If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

  Robert Caro

  Political, Politics, Politician

  Robert A. Caro (1983). “The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power”, Vintage

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