Measured Quotes

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

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