Barometer Quotes

• Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

  Tiger Woods

  Winning, Get Better

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• Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Weather, Kind, Instruments

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.23, University of Georgia Press

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• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

  Gary Oldman

  Knowing, Finding Yourself, Trying

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• Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.316, Hamilton Books

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• The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Philosophy, Weather

  1950 The Liberal Imagination.

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• The audience is the barometer of the truth.

  Barbra Streisand

  Audience

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Dance, Art, Our World

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

  David Hare

  Change, Weather, Littles

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• At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

  Mehmet Oz

  Health, Sleep, Night

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• I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

  Thomas Jane

  Relationship, Thinking, People

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  Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Lying, Weather

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.

  Ethan Hawke

  Art, Opportunity, Roots

  New York Daily News, May 11, 2000.

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• I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

  Jane Siberry

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.

  Margaret Mead

  Jealousy, Insecurity, Depth

  Margaret Mead, William O. Beeman (2004). “Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory”, p.293, Berghahn Books

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• As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

  Joe Greene

  Dream, Team, Oakland

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• Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

  Wayne Dyer

  Action, Behavior

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You believe what you want to believe

  Tom Petty

  Believe, Want, What You Want

  Song: Tom Petty- Refugee

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• Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Integrity, People

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 11, 2010

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• The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Size, Social

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.882, Best Books on

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• No matter how you feel about your extended family or family gatherings you will be attending. This is because now the ultimate reason for attending family gatherings is for your children to have the time of their lives with their cousins. Little kids love their cousins. I’m not being cute or exaggerating here. Cousins are like celebrities for little kids. If little kids had a People magazine, cousins would be on the cover. Cousins are the barometers of how fun a family get-together will be. “Are the cousins going to be there? Fun!

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cute, Cousin, Fun

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.226, Crown Archetype

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• Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Temptation, Our Love, God Love

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2010). “Getting to No: How to Break a Stubborn Habit”, p.21, David C Cook

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• I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!

  Anita Moorjani

  Feelings, Important, Enough

  Anita Moorjani (2012). “Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing”, p.157, Hay House, Inc

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• The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Editors, Quality

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• The way we view the world, the ultimate barometer of quality is: if it gets shared, it’s quality.

  Emerson Spartz

  Views, Quality, World

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Country, Men, Decency

  Samuel R. Delany, Robert M. Williams (1964). “The towers of Toron”

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