Quotes About Measured

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

When I was younger, I wasn't thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that's not what the average person does, but I've gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

I'm a very guarded person, very controlled person.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives," he interposed, in his measured way. "Miss Brooke knows that they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

I never could look on it in the light of a recreation to have my ears teased with measured noises," said Mr Casaubon.

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

I do like the thrill of risk-taking, but it's always carefully calculated. I have done many high risk undertakings, but I have always measured the stakes. Not feeding the fear nor the doubt. But I also believe that you need to fuel passion in whatever you do. This is what I am trying to teach my children today.

How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.' 'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.

He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn't remember.

Moderation in all things

choosing his words very carefully, like someone slowly eating matza.

Buy calmly and with meaning.

Sober, steadfast, and demure.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

I'm quite reasonable and level-headed.

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

I'm not reckless. I was never reckless.

I'm a lot of things, but I'm not reckless.

As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

Beauty, inspiration, and pleasure are qualities that corporations hope customers find in their products, yet none are easily measured. If you want to explain the difference between Apple, BMW, and IKEA and Microsoft, Fiat, and Walmart, KPIs alone will not help you.

My own eyes try to sleep, but they don't. They stay wide awake as time snarls forward and silence drops down, like measured thought.

All the examples, I noticed, had a few attributes in common: They involved simple interventions—a vaccine, the removal of a pump handle. The effects were carefully measured. And the interventions proved to have widely transmissible benefits—what business types would term a large ROI (return on investment) or what Archimedes would have called, merely, leverage.

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.