Quotes about measure

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.

Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

I grasp words for the sake of clutching My mind considers them heart touchingRight then I write for my reader's pleasureNot knowing what distance a soul can measure

The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful by being what Art has never been; and to measure it by the standard of the past is to measure it by a standard on the rejection of which its real perfection depends.

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

The measure of a man is his state of mind.

Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a person's needs.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day

O Heavenly Children, God has blessed you all with many treasures that only the most purehearted already know. His fruitful garden is vast and without measure, and in your own very bodies, He has planted metals of copper, silver and gold.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.

The value of darkness can never be measuredif you don’t break its cheap spell secretly treasured

The only measurement I understand is perfection.

You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant.

the measure of achievements in life are directly related to the acquire knowledge, not to the social recognition.

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.

Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.

Learning can never be quantified with a flawed educational unit.

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

I was downstairs, reading."" Now?" I strained to see her face. She was smiling, it appeared."Yes, now," she said. "It's nice, sometimes, to read in the middle of the night. The sky is so dark and soft-looking outside the window, all the stars out. You have just on light on, you know, and it seems to pour onto the page. Makes the book seem better. You are this little island, just up alone with a book. And you heard the night sounds of the house...It's so interesting to me, that sound. Time. The m

Genuine surprise is a great help when faced with an unwelcome duty. Of course, when it’s the paying of debts you’re forgetting, that can lead to broken fingers. And worse. I guess it’s a form of lying— lying to oneself. And I’m very good at falsehoods. They often say the best liars half-believe their lies— which makes me the very best because if I repeat a lie often enough I can end up believing it entirely, no half measures involved!

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, it is its enormity, its boundlessness, its oceanic limitlessness. The earth has no end here; the world has no end. Man is no created for such measureless. For him a comfortable, palpable, serviceable measure is the measure of his village, his field, street, house. At sea, the size of the ship's deck will be such a measure. Man is created for the kind of space that he can traverse at one try, with

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed out of this forsaken place was used to make you. That's why you're so small, my friend: there just wasn't that much left." Fang laughed. "and that's why you can see us, you know, and nobody else can. You see everybody, even that lumberjack.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

To know the good from the bad, measure the heart. Actions reveal the true coloring of one's heart, not their intentions.

A clock that is moving through space at a very fast speed does not tick at the same rate as a slow-moving watch gently attached to your wrist as you stroll on a tropical beach. The idea of a universal time - a godlike clock that could somehow sit outside our universe and measure, in one go, the movement of everything in it, how its evolution unfolds, how old it is and all that - does not exist.

With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary—the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe—before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

What Olympians eat can vary tremendously depending not only on the events they're competing in, but also their body type and lifestyle outside the Olympic arena. Their diets are affected not only by the demands of their sports, but by everything else in their lives, things that are almost impossible to accurately measure and factor in.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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.

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

Measure your success by the ladder you set for yourself and not on what somebody achieved or done!

The true measure of a person’s character is how one handles one’s failures, not successes.

How much dust can a body make? Little specks of death. Measuring life in millimeters.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.