Measured Quotes

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

And I don't think that success can be measured by how many TV shows you're on.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

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

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.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

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.

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.

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.

I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance.

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.

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

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

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.

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

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.