Measured Quotes

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.