Measured Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

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.

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.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.