Measure Quotes
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As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio -
Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination.
Baruch Spinoza
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Unlike the bounded-set approach where we're constantly trying to measure ourselves up to see whether we're in or out, the centered-set paradigm invites us to ask far more simple and profound questions: "Am I moving toward Jesus? Am I moving toward love?
Benjamin L. Corey -
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Thomas A. Edison -
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
Mahatma Gandhi -
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Robert H. Schuller -
Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.
Rene Dubos -
The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad poetry and bad music.
Bosie
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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.
Charles Dickens -
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.
Euripides -
Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?
Andrew Hargadon -
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Alfred Einstein -
You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success. . . . I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen -
The gist is that good and evil are foreordained. What is foreordained comes necessarily to be after a prior act of divine volition...Rather, everything small and large is written and comes to be in a known and expected measure.
Blaise Pascal
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The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.
Alma Katsu -
God created everything by number, weight and measure.
Isaac Newton -
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Galileo Galilei -
But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
Plutarch -
Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all.
Oswald Chambers
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.
Wilfred Trotter -
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.
Geoff Gaberino -
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
Anatol Rapoport