Max von Stephanitz famous quotes

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.
-- Max von Stephanitz

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The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.
-- Max von Stephanitz

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The most striking features of the correctly bred German Shepherds are firmness of nerves, attentiveness, unshockability, tractability, watchfulness, reliability and incorruptibility together with courage, fighting tenacity and hardness.
-- Max von Stephanitz

#Fighting #Together #Nerves

The breeding of shepherd dogs is the breeding of working dogs; and this must always be the aim, or we shall cease to produce shepherd dogs.
-- Max von Stephanitz

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The good Shepherd dog knows his master almost better than himself and must wonder indeed at the lack of the reverse.
-- Max von Stephanitz

#Dog #Shepherds #Wonder

Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.
-- Max von Stephanitz

#Dog #Games #Answers

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria.

I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.

Utility is the true criterion of beauty.

As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.