Benchmarks Quotes

It's funny how people mark their lives, the benchmarks they choose to decide when the moment is more of a moment than any other. For life is made of them. I like to think the best ones of all are in my mind, that they run through my blood in their own memory bank for no one else but me to see.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

One way Great Teams can share their visions is by creatively laying out their plans and visions, creating a road map for its members to follow. A Great Team outlines expectations for all members of an organization and for the organization as a whole. This clear-cut set of objectives - a road map - enables the organization to set benchmarks and goals and ultimately to lay the foundation for its own success.

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

I always and strictly tell Nintendo employees never to use the term 'success' to describe our own performance.

I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

PK' is a very unique story. There are no benchmarks in Hindi cinema to give you an idea about 'PK.'

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

When we feel pressured to have achieved certain things by a particular age, it could ultimately hinder us. It's great to have goals but those specific benchmarks can easily become irrelevant once you ask yourself, 'where am I having the most impact?' 'Am I going after the stories I want to tell?'

I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.

As a society, we're not squeamish about suggesting norms for what individuals should weigh, how much money they must earn in order not be judged impoverished, and how much cholesterol is okay in their blood.... In education, we have lots of tests, but we don't really have any norms.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Generally the things you get offered are never things you want to do. It's a continual fight for the good parts. As you climb the ladder and get to different benchmarks, enter new stratospheres, you're just competing against all the other people in that stratosphere.

Benchmarks, yes, we want the Iraqi government to do the things that will show progress. But to say, American troops are going to leave, no matter what's happening on the ground, is surrender. There is no other word for it.