Measure Quotes
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The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
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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.
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All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.
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I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
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You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.
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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
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The measure of the worth of our public activity for God is the private profound communion we have with Him.
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You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
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Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals.
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Heaven grants the human being who has learned to live alone a deep measure of such rewards that verily would one hesitate to sacrifice such proved satisfactions, such rare unending possibilities of contentment for anything less than certainty more certain still.
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When Ma died, I didn't know how to go on, either. I don't know how. I don't feel the same know, not exactly. Now that I see that one day comes after another and you get through them one measure at a time. But I'd like to go, not like Fonda Nye, I don't want to die, I just want to go, away, out of the dust.
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
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Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
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Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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Standardized tests don't measure everything in a child's life in school. We should take a look at the total education and not just what they can put on a bubble sheet.
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.
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Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.
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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.
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I've laid down with love and woke up with lies. What's it all, worth only the heart can measure.
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It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
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It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
