Measured Quotes

808 Measured quotes by 650 unique authors

The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for success in life.… — James Heckman
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds
To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor… — Benjamin Cardozo
Fertility is measured by offspring, not by honours. — Alexander Grothendieck
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. — Booker T. Washington
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. — Sinclair Lewis
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… — Graham Norton
I suggested that we might compare earthquakes in terms of the measured amplitudes recorded at these stations, with an appropriate correction for distance. — Charles Francis Richter
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being… — Charles Francis Richter
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,… — Origen
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists… — Paul Berg
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… — Paul Hawken
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. — Robert Collier
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away. — Francis Aungier
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at… — Dorothy Thompson
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. — Junius
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency… — Benjamin Harrison
Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. — Mike Ditka
Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural… — Jon Meacham
Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material… — Doug Ose
The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically… — James Fenton
The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged. — Joni Eareckson Tada
Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he… — Vincent Nichols

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