Quotes of: Benchmark Keyword

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith

Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

America is a young country, young and brash and prone to errors. Like teenagers. For all our inherent goodness, we’ve been cursed with bright, shiny object disease and we don’t want a cure. Not now. Not till we get our little taste, till our kids...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

James Dyson

humans have a global benchmark-standard of conduct that called humanity

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The Timeline of a Life being Long or Short, is Computed on the Benchmark of How You Live It...

Saurabh Dudeja

We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they were de...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Always give your best; today's great work is tomorrow's benchmark.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Arabella Weir

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Sunny Deol

In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well, not even the young...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.

Mitch Lasky

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.

David Blunkett

I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.

William McDonough

We love Christmas presents but not Christ; Easter baskets but not crosses. We want to tell our friends with cancer that we will pray for them (we don’t) and our puddle-eyed children that their goldfish have gone to heaven (doubtful). When we lose o...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Dan Hawkins