Measure Quotes

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

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

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

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

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.