Quotes About Measure

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

ca ÅŸi cum preaplinul sufletului nu s-ar rev?rsa câteodat? prin metaforele cele mai g?unoase, fiindc? nimeni, niciodat?, nu poate da m?sur? exact? a nevoilor, nici a concepÅ£iilor, nici a durerilor sale, iar cuvântul omenesc este ca un ceaun dogit în care batem ritmuri de ursari, când de fapt am râvni s? înduio??m stelele.

But I was also very pleased when I heard the Prince of Montenegro got married the other day. I know perfectly well that I am nothing to anyone. But the middle finger is no longer than the pinkie if one measures both against infinity...

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that proceeded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

The dignity that we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives. Ars moriendi as ars vivendi: The art of dying is the art of living. The honesty and grace of the years of life that are ending is the real measure of how we die. It is not in the last weeks or days that we compose the message that will be remembered, but in all the decades that preceded them. Who has lived in dignity, dies in dignity.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

Without pretending to be quite sure what a skunk is," said the Duke, "I take you to be all that it isn't. And the high esteem in which I hold you is the measure for me of the loss that your death would be to America and to Oxford.

my goals are extreme and therefore I moderate and measure my means.

in our Christian lives, success is obedience to God, not results we can measure.

Avoid irreverent, empty speech, for this will produce an even greater measure of godlessness. 2 Timothy 2:16

In terms of client & press requests, I operate under the assumption that anything I say will be blasted out in public, so I measure my words incredibly carefully because of the scrutiny I'm under.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.