Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a director to tell me I'm doing a good job or that I'm great. I don't need to be stroked. It's more my own yardstick.
I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
I just want to do some movies that my children and my grandchildren would be proud of. That's my yardstick.
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
For me, it's about the impact that the role has in the film overall. Less or more screen time, whether I get to romance the hero, is not the yardstick I go by. If my part is strong enough, then why not?
