Measuring Quotes
It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.
They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track.
Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.
We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?'
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again
If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we’re good enough.
You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future
Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.
I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.
Time never changes—only we change. We measure the changes of our lives and think that we are measuring time. We are just measuring the movement of the earth.
If at first you don’t succeed, then maybe you have the wrong idea of success, or you’re using the wrong standard of measuring it.
