Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.
When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs.
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.
There's always merit to having a debate.
There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.
Merit should count more than academic background.
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.
You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
There's no literary merit in my books.
The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
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.
Evidently the merit depends on the result of the work.
If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'
