Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

There's always going to be questions asked where there is competition, and as long as you can answer those questions, then you're deserving of a place.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

Man is the measure of all things.

Merit should count more than academic background.

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.

The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

It is a privileged school with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting. But the only justification for privilege is that it should help people develop themselves to the full. We are elitist, but not exclusive. And I'm not in ashamed in the least of being elitist. All that means is aiming at the highest standards you can achieve.

… test everything, and retain whatever is good.

The ranking never lies.

But I don't write a full capsule review of anything I haven't heard five times. It's usually closer to ten.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

I know who can play and who can't play and I'm very straight-forward... If you can play, you can play; if you can't, you can't.

I think anytime any record is compared to Tiger, it's always going to be good.

We will give importance to performance while choosing officials.

There are always going to be questions asked when there is competition. As long as you can answer those questions, then you are deserving of a place.

We can be judged in many ways.

I don't really feel like rankings mean anything.

I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.