Measure Quotes

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

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.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

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

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

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.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.