We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in… — Wayne D. Dosick Copy Share Image
continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
I think we've had two presidents in a row that tried to unite the American people and both of them failed, quite… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
We recognize caste in dogs because we rank ourselves by the familiar dog system, a ladderlike social arrangement wherein one individual outranks… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world,… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best. — George Jones Copy Share Image
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to… — Alan K. Simpson Copy Share Image
Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use… — Roy Crowson Copy Share Image
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief?… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside,… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image