Measure Quotes

2084 Measure quotes by 1450 unique authors

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing… — Davy Jones
Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large… — Allen Newell
As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii… — Satoru Iwata
So many times we look for those things in life we can measure.... The college degree, the money we earn, the success we brag about....… — Unknown Author
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be… — Samuel Smiles
Still others make gardens because it is part of a full life. To live happily they must invest their hours and aspirations in the activities… — Richardson Wright
But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the… — Richard L. Evans
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter… — Rabindranath Tagore
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should… — Unknown Author
But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security… — Albert Einstein
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
How many people you bless is how you measure success — Rick Ross
You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still,… — John Welwood
We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the… — Rudyard Kipling
The key to overcoming aloneness and a feeling of uselessness for one who is physically able is to step outside yourself by helping others who… — Ezra Taft Benson
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But… — Edgar Allan Poe
For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give… — Johannes Tauler
Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours… — Khalil Gibran
A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the… — Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?… — J. Michael Bishop
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects.… — Adam Riess
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the… — Alan Page

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