Quotes About Measure

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.

She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.

Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.

Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.

This type of measure was in perfect conformity with Heider's premises, which viewed the cognitive universe as a scene contemplated by the perceiver and that satisfied, to a greater or lesser degree, his or her preference for balance (Heider, 1958).

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled.

Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure. But this is what the commandant insists upon, why the Reich measures their noses, clocks their hair color.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me." "Such is the essence of self-control, youngster.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

Without having a clear objective, accountability serves no real purpose, is tough to measure, hard to implement, and is difficult to sustain over time.

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neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even

The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

The auction proposes what the envy test in fact assumes, that the true measure of the social resources devoted to the life of one person is fixed by asking how important, in fact, that resource is for others. [The auction] insists that the cost, measured in that way, figures in each person's sense of what is rightly his and in each person's judgment of what life he should lead, given that command of justice.