Merit Quotes
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The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons for rejection. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
Brian Koppelman
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca the Younger
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What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
Susan Oliver
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The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
George Sarton
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
Lao Tzu
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
John Calvin
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People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
Sebastian Junger
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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
Ernest Rutherford
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Nolan Bushnell
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
Victor Hugo
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
William Godwin
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
Thomas Carlyle
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When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.
Cate Blanchett
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Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
Catullus
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The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
William Law
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster
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He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Elias Lyman Magoon
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Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
William Law
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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I love blue more than any other color. I am inordinately attracted to any blue substance: to minerals like turquoise and lapis lazuli, to sapphires and aquamarines; to cobalt skies and blue-black seas; Moslem tiles - and to a blue flower whether or not it has any other merit.
Eleanor Perenyi
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Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
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Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
Ada Leverson