Measured Quotes

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

I traveled enormously during the 1960's, when you measured everything by where you traveled and what you did as travelers.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time.

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.