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• I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Fate, Overcoming

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• There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Real, Priorities, Leader

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• The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring the earth. Euclid is perpetually in their hands. Aristotle and Theophrastus are the objects of their admiration; and they express an uncommon reverence for the works of Galen. Their errors are derived from the abuse of the arts and sciences of the infidels, and they corrupt the simplicity of the gospel by the refinements of human reason.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Sight, Hands

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.594, Delphi Classics

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• The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Input

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• Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Live Your Life, Rulers

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 2-2 Character), 1980.

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• Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.

  Michelle Obama

  What Matters, Empowering, Healthy

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• Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189 Some there are who presume so far on their wits that they think themselves capable of measuring the whole nature of things by their intellect, in that they esteem all things true which they see, and false which they see not. Accordingly, in order that man's mind might be freed from this presumption, and seek the truth humbly, it was necessary that certain things far surpassing his intellect should be proposed to man by God.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Technology, Video, Television

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• If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become big and beyond measuring; if you have this love of inconsiderable things and seek quite simply, as one who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier, more coherent and somehow more conciliatory for you, not in your intellect, perhaps, which lags marveling behind, but in your inmost consciousness, waking and cognizance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Winning, Simple

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• Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback.

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Effort, Decision

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.120, Routledge

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• There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Long, Yards

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• If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost. You are measuring yourself only against yourself and your tendencies not to do all that you are capable of doing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Health, Mean

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• Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

  George Jones

  Philosophy, People, Way

  Song: Wrong's What I Do Best

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• By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

  Ian Mcewan

  Individuality, Novelists, States

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• Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Hard Work, Goal

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• Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Time, Pain

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.69

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• Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

  Philip Yancey

  Grace, Pharisees, Entitlement

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.56, Image

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• An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Artist, Hands

  John Addington Symonds, Michelangelo Buonarroti (2002). “The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence”, p.286, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.

  Oliver Lodge

  Mean, Science, Sea

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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• In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

  Charles Fort

  Circles

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Objectivity, Ideas

  "Prophesy Deliverance!". Book by Cornel West, 1982.

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• Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.

  Lyman Abbott

  Law, Together, Moral

  Lyman Abbott (1900). “Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott”

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• I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Jobs, Commitment, Gay

  "Bigotry That Hurts Our Military". www.washingtonpost.com. March 14, 2007.

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• In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Bird, Tree

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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