Quotes About Measured

aggregate statistics like GDP per capita and its derivatives such as factor productivity . . . were designed for a steel-and-wheat economy, not one in which information and data are the most dynamic sector. Many of the new goods and services are expensive to design, but once they work, they can be copied at very low or zero costs. That means they tend to contribute little to measured output even if their impact on consumer welfare is very large.

Memory and time, both immaterial, are rivers with no banks and constantly merging. Both escape our will, though we depend on them. Measured but measured by whom or by what? The one is inside, the other, outside or so it seems, but is that true? Time seems also buried deep in us but where? Memory is right here, in the head, but it can exit, abandon that head, leave it behind, disappear. Memory, a sanctuary of infinite patience.

I'm an old dog; I don't get too excited. I don't get caught up in all the mass hysteria.

I'm not an idiot. Everything is calculated that I do.

I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.

I'm not the kind of guy who says 'wow' a lot.

One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

I'm not slow." "Well, you're not hasty

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Can you imagine what America would have been like if the federal government slammed on the brakes every time some paranoid crackpot cried "wolf" or "global warming" or "living dead"? Please. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.

Routine is not a prison, but the way into freedom from time. The apparently measured time has immeasureable space within it, and in this it resembles music. The routine I established

His words never rushed but were selected, chewed over, released into the air as if the best choice possible had been made.

Be encouraged when your prayers reveal progress that can be measured even in the tiniest increments. God is at work in your life and in the lives of those around you, and before long, little by little will add up to major change.

I'm instinctively cautious because I'm an academic.

We need to make sure that access to a curative drug doesn't become a yardstick by which poverty is eventually measured. Doing so requires a shared commitment between innovators and the insurance plans that are harder pressed to offer these advances to the poor.

La gratitude rend heureux parce qu'on fait rarement l'expérience palpable, la délicatesse de sentiment fait du bien et, pour moi, être mesuré et froid, une telle exaltation signifiait quelque chose de tout à fait bienfaisant, merveilleux.

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Festina lente may well be his motto

Monsieur le president, I know what I'm saying. This affair cost people their lives, and now here they are, wrangling on behalf of these swine!' Catherine's outburst is at odds with her consistently measured demeanour during the course of the lengthy investigation

national inpatient-satisfaction scores have been falling. One survey placed the IRS at number 27 and hospitals at number 28 on a list of 30 industries measured.

That was not a glare. That was a dignified look of measured contempt.

For anxiety and dread, the threat is in the future. For fear, the threat is now—in the present. Fear is a negative, short-lasting, high-alert emotion in response to a perceived threat, and, like anxiety, it can be measured as a state or trait.