Measure Quotes

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

A man's measure is his will.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Wins are the most important measure for goalies, I think. Certainly it's a great accomplishment.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

The slum is the measure of civilization.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.