Measure Quotes
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The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
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For any filmmaker who has just released a film and who is experiencing some measure of success, the temptation can be great to respond to every screening request that comes in.
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Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.
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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.
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A true measure of success is just to work hard and get my music out there and just be myself and be real.
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The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
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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.
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The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.
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You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
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You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
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My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.
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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.
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“Be not grieved above the measure for thy deceased loved ones. They are not dead, but have only finished the journey which it is necessary for every one of us to take. We ourselves must go to that great place of reception in which they are all of them assembled, and in this general rendezvous of mankind, live together in another state of being.”
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As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.
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In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
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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.
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I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.
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I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.
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A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
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You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
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“Put in the starkest terms, there is no measure by which we can adequately quantify the devastation a mass nuclear attack would have on our civilization. My”
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A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
