Measure Quotes

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Man is the measure of all things.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

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.

Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

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.

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

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that's where my values are and that's where my riches are.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

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.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.