Amount Quotes

How a man perceives substance dictates the amount of substance in a man. To know the depth of anyone's true substance, simply measure the weight of what consumes and excites their inner drive.

I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it.

There is an enormous amount to be learned about the sea; like most wildernesses, it has great potential.

We are blessed with a place that is open to the universe and, despite this, supports this very thin envelope of air we call atmosphere, which holds just the right amount of oxygen for us to breathe.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

I know Bret Easton Ellis has said he has some amount of empathy for every character he has written about, though, so maybe I am similar to him in terms of that. I'm not sure what he thinks exactly.

No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity

I also do a certain amount of talking through material on stage, to see what happens and allow interesting ideas to manifest.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.

It takes a tremendous amount of merit to meet with the dharma - especially if you have an interest in it.

Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.

No amount of telling is worth doing it once.

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity.

A tremendous amount of energy is freed up when you feel that your vision is actually respected and cared for by the people you're working with.

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates.

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.

Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

It’s happened to far too many Americans. You open up your phone bill and wonder why there’s an extra zero, or several, on the amount that you owe.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

We have a fair amount of racism.

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person.

A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.

Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth.

No amount of hatred can prevent an enemy from being right sometimes.

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

I spend a fair amount of time just thinking about whether something is feasible or not, and if it is feasible, whether it's really worth doing.

Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.