Criteria Vs Criterion Quotes & Sayings

The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis of what affects or interests the greatest number of one's readers or viewers. Depending on the nature of the newspaper or broadcast, the balance between what "affects" and what "interests" is quite different. The first criteria of a responsible newspaper such as The New York Times is going to be that which their readers need to know about their world that day - those developments that in one way or another might affect their health, their pocketbooks, the future of themselves and their children. The first criterion of the tabloid is that which "interests" its readers - gossip, sex, scandal. — Walter Cronkite

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

A heart full of bitterness is a life full of sorrows. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time. — Peter Bogdanovich

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. — Ludwig Von Mises

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there. — Pearl S. Buck

Without pain, how we could know joy. — John Green

with the CenturyLink Field faithful. — The News Tribune

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise. — Peter Drucker

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

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you. — Stephen Richards

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. — Edmund Burke

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable. — Brassai

Utility is the true criterion of beauty. — Max Von Stephanitz

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

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress. — Bert Hellinger

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. — Mahlon Hoagland

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"? — Emily Dickinson

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom. — Francis George

... For Weber ... autonomy resides not in the formulation of universal laws but in the value-creating activity unconstrained by any criteria - except in Weber's case, by the criterion of self-consistency. — Rogers Brubaker

If you look at all the variables in nature that are said
to determine human "sex," you can't possibly find one that will unequivocally split the species into two. Each of the so-called criteria of sexedness is itself a continuum - including chromosomal variables, genital and gonadal variations,
reproductive capacities, endocrinological proportions, and any other criterion you could think of. Any or all of these different variables may line up in any number of ways, and all of the variables may vary independently of one another. — John Stoltenberg

[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]

If 'fulfilled prophecy' is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses. — Carl Sagan

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me. — Anton Chekhov