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A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Dieter Rams
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The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Bert Hellinger
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Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
Mahlon Hoagland
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There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
Douglas Hofstadter
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The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.
Ashley Montagu
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The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness
Kengo Kuma
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Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
Peter Drucker
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For me the criterion of a good photograph is that it is unforgettable.
Brassai
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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
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G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything.
Laszlo Bock
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I think that the fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in "hard" science, could become a dogma, can be explained only on sociological grounds.
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
Henry Petroski
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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
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Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.
Thomas Kuhn
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
Albert Bandura
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Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.
Bent Saether
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On vague wording of drone strike criteria: “Are you going to just drop a hellfire missile on Jane Fonda? Are you going to drop a missile on Kent State? That’s gobbledygook.
Rand Paul
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Ludwig von Mises
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Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.
Paul Feyerabend
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There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
Edmund Burke
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
Brian Ferneyhough
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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
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I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.
Giovanni Ribisi
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Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
Emily Dickinson
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If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.
Bob Goodlatte
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Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.
Stacy London
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The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.
Peter Bogdanovich
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I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.
John Legend
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Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Vaclav Havel
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I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.
John Cusack
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Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.
Patricia Piccinini
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We can establish empirical criteria for free actions, and investigate human actions on the presupposition we are free.
Allen W. Wood
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There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.
Noam Chomsky
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Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.
Alan Dershowitz
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By any reasonable criteria, the discipline of economics as a whole, in its present state, is sadly lacking.
Paul Ormerod
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Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.
Richard Dawkins
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What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.
Jack McKeon
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It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present.
Pope Francis
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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
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It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.
J. L. Austin
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The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
Herbert Marcuse