Measuring Quotes - Page 4

• You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Girl, Years, Tape

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

  Richard Bentall

  Environmental, Way, Influence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

  Peter Jacobson

  Smart, Guy, Bars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

  Jean Shepherd

  Good Day, White, Victory

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• You are going to be measured anyway by some means, fair or foul. Usually the one doing the measuring has nothing specific in mind; so he does it by the seat of his pants. Careers are destroyed in this manner.

  Phil Crosby

  Mean, Careers, Mind

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• The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Imagination, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Book, Writing

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• We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'

  Paul Ryan

  Success, Program, Measure Of Success

  "Hill Dems, Republicans clash over how to address causes of Baltimore unrest" by Deirdre Walsh, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.
  As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Imperfection, Effort, Transition

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• Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.

  Henry Adams

  God, Attitude, Mistake

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1685, Open Road Media

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• Space is a way of measuring time; time is a way of measuring space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Space, Way, Universe

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• We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks all others, the next outranks all but the first, and so on down the hierarchy. But the cat system is more like a wheel, with a high-ranking cat at the hub and the others arranged around the rim, all reluctantly acknowledging the superiority of the despot but not necessarily measuring themselves against one another.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Dog, Cat, Hierarchy

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2001). “The Tribe of Tiger”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  Men, Feminism, Tools

  Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”

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• I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Voice, Track

  "Transcript: Barack Obama and The God Factor Interview" by Cathleen Falsani, sojo.net. February 21, 2012.

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• I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

  Bill Watterson

  Paper, Standards, Higher

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important and the less important. It is an ordering according to rank, an act of grading (Cuhel), and not an act of measuring. It was a mistake to search for a measure of the value of goods. In the last analysis, economic calculation does not rest on the measurement of values, but on their arrangement in an order of rank.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mistake, Order, Important

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.169, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

  Sophia Loren

  Kindness, Real, Grief

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• Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone.

  Patrik Sinkewitz

  Growth Hormones, Blood, Testosterone

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• Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

  Carl Sandburg

  Wings, Bucks, March

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Inner Peace, Prosperity

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• It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

  Seth

  Mean, Wells, Guts

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• I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.

  Kate Grenville

  Thinking, Shapes, Way

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Self Worth, People

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.87, Jaico Publishing House

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• If I'm not writing a poem to decompress from my experiences on a movie set, I usually just cook and it's like meditative. Especially since I'm at the stage now where I don't really use measuring cups. Kind of instinctual, I just kind of prepare my own dishes as I go along.

  Masiela Lusha

  Writing, Use, Cups

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Positive, Real

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