When I am in Kolkata, I can’t resist the food. I eat everything, but I measure my food intake.
Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn’t something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.
Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.
Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.
One must measure and conduct one’s life on its own terms.
Put your goals on paper, or an Excel spreadsheet. Measure every day, ‘Did I do my best to…?’ Your problems won’t disappear, but you will exist in a different relation to them, and you will improve.
Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social life and political representation in Washington, which doesn’t really exist anymore.
Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the ‘per billions’ of passengers.
If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be… That’s how I’m going to measure my career as a success or not.
Life does not measure up to performing… Performing is perfect.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.
A man’s measure is his will.
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven’t seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
Money isn’t always the measure of how valuable you are to our society.
By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don’t learn, then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you’re able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
If you don’t measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
If you’re going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don’t work.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
How does one measure the success of a museum?
How I measure riches is by the friends I have and the loved ones I have and the people that I care about in my life, and that’s where my values are and that’s where my riches are.
My best mentor is a mechanic – and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn’t have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.
The only time I’ve ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That’s the only time I end up thinking about it.
Popularizing – much less venturing beyond one’s secure turf – was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was – and knew I was – among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don’t mean I was the best historian – a quite different measure.
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can’t even measure yet.
I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There’s never any guarantee about what’s going to follow once you have made a decision.
Courage – a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
There’s a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can’t measure. We can’t find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it’s there.
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we’ve loved or icons we’ve loved.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
My interest is not data, it’s the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it’s very difficult to measure in numbers.
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one’s self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.
It’s gratifying to work for somebody who doesn’t measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.
You can tell the depth of a person based on the quality of the questions they ask. We can measure the depth of humanity by a similar method. Space compels us to ask deeper questions.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
I don’t think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don’t believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.
I identify in some measure with each of my characters.
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
Measure yourself and your success by what you give to others, not what you receive in return.
My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’
Love is an emotion. It can’t be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure.
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China’s endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
SleepScore Max empowers me to identify my own sleep issues and gives me advice for better sleep to maximize my performance every day. It’s critical to measure and quantify improvements while training.
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
Really, the measure of a man is when they’re tired and exhausted.
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.
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
As you walk in God’s divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
The apricot’s fleetingly short harvest – only a few weeks long – explains the urge to save the season in a jar. But cooked fruit, no matter how expertly preserved, can never measure up to the flawlessness of its fresh counterpart.
