Measured Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

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.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.

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.