Quotes About Measure

E' questione di misura, contentarsi. Uno si contenta di tanto, (fa segno col pollice sul mignolo) un altro ha tutto e non se ne contenta.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.

Still, despite the satisfaction of their surface lives, Cora Grovians share in full measure the pain that is the basis of all human misery: the fact that we can never be as important to anyone else as we are to ourselves. There simply is never enough love.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has obtained liberation from self.

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do.

Success should not only be measured by what you get but by the stewardship of your duty.

God's approval should be your standard for success.

In the world, success is measured in terms of legacy, what we leave behind. In God's kingdom, success is measured by what we send on ahead.

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

As it turned out, Clark's shortcomings as a strategist—particularly failing to accurately take the measure of Milosevic—were as nothing in comparison to his deficiencies as a battlefield general.

The entrance His words find with me, will be the measure of the power of any words with Him.

Enquirer, cease, Petitions yet remain, Which Heav'n may hear, nor deem Religion vain. Still raise for Good the supplicating Voice, But leave to Heav'n the Measure and the Choice.

The measure of a person's psychological health and growth is not in the self, but in the quality of her or his relationships.

Time, Caroline decided, could be trusted to measure the distance between meals, and nothing else. But a mile was always a mile, no matter how long it took to traverse. Days spent on the road were best measured in miles.

told him a lot, right then and there. What? Well, for instance, that chaos doesn't run the whole show. That this is not a sick and hasty ride, helpless, through a dream into oblivion. No, sir! It can be arrested by a thing or two. By art, for instance. The speed is checked, the time is redivided. Measure! That great thought. Mystery! The voices of angels!

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.

Description length is actually a measure of complexity

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

As in all of these disciplines, there's one key ingredient that helps keep the religion out – fun. Religion, by nature, demands your serious attention. It is the anti-play. Capon writes: For while it is a truism that nothing that is fun can be done without some measure of discipline, it is practically an eternal truth that nothing that calls for discipline will be kept at very long (or very well) if it is not fun.44

Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.

All measure, and all language, I should pass, Should I tell what a miracle she was.

man is so little, in respect of the greatest man, as the greatest in respect of God; for here, in that, we have not so much as a measure to try it by; proportion is no measure for infinity.