Measure Quotes
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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?
Abraham Pais
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
J. Paul Getty
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Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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We kept Mark out as a precautionary measure. He looked good this morning. We don't anticipate any problems.
Joe Gibbs
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark
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With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Bela Bartok
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
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You can't measure love, it has no start it has no end.
Christofer Drew
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City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.
L. Neil Smith
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer
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Never measure or compare yourself to anyone other than your past self, seek to always improve & you'll be happy and successful.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
Abu Bakr
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The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.
Nicolas Poussin
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I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash
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Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
Tupac Shakur
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
Jack Welch
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun
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Measure what can be measured, and make measureable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei
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If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Lance Ito
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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.
Anna Komnene
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Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
Cherrie Moraga
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I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
Jon Krakauer
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It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
Juan Enriquez
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To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Ban Ki-moon