Measure Quotes

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

To measure the man, measure his heart.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

This emergency spending measure is certainly only the beginning, since we here in Washington will continue to work closely with the president and emergency agencies to ensure they continue receiving the funding they need.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.