- Focus
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Criterion Quotes
Criterion is the measuring stick running through these reflections on judgment and standards. One ties well-ordered society to consistent type-forms adopted over history, another names combat readiness as the true test of a military's purpose, and a further voice recalls a childhood project judged mainly by mechanical complexity.
Criterion quotes explore how standards get set and judged across society, work, and craft. For a related theme, see Character quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
- Design
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found.
- First
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.
- Equality
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.
- Feasible
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
- Most
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Assessment
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
- Human
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.
- Reason
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
- Facts
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I just got a Filmstruck account so I can watch all of those Criterion movies streaming. I've been nerding out about that.
- Free
- |
- Nov 07, 2020