If we weren't so distracted by the "outstanding" as some kind of bizarre yardstick of self-worth measurement, we would appreciate and relish the real, the small and the imperfect.
Millennials were raised in an atmosphere of co-decision making and equal relationships, so evaluations from others is really important to use as a yardstick to evaluate sense of self".
Nor should we use anyone else as a yardstick against which we measure our own health, beauty or sense of self.
Only by the warped yardstick of these wacky days.
Exhaustion has become a yardstick of measuring a meaningful life.
He once said: Be a yardstick of quality.
Classicism measures the present by the yardstick of the past.
It also illustrates the limitations of growth as a yardstick of economic progress.
Measured by the yardstick of the amounts paid for Modigliani and Cézanne, it is laughably low.
By the yardstick of Academy membership, he's wickedly au courant, verging on edgy.
It would be unfair to judge him solely by the yardstick of success.
