Measured Quotes
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The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.
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Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
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To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
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The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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In times like these, a journalist's contribution to his country is measured in terms of illustrious commitment and sacrifice, ... There was no one more devoted to his calling than David Bloom and for that we are both grateful and humbled.
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There are many things about living the gospel of Jesus Christ that cannot be measured by that which is counted or charted in records of attendance.
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A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
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True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
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Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself.
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The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
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Four years partly illness much perfection and rejoining beauty and perfection and then at the end there came a definite creation of something. This is what is to be measured.
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The waves travel with the velocity of light and slightly squeeze and stretch space transverse to the direction of their motion. The first waves we measured came from the collision of two black holes each about 30 times the mass of our sun.
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.
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Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.
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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.
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Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.
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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
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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.
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Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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Public space is for living, doing business, kissing, and playing. Its value can't be measured with economics or mathematics; it must be felt with the soul.
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When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.
