Quotes About Measure

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

But fragility and antifragility are part of the current property of an object, a coffee table, a company, an industry, a country, a political system. We can detect fragility, see it, even in many cases measure it, or at least measure comparative fragility with a small error while comparisons of risk have been (so far) unreliable.

The resulting measure of future uncertainty satisfies our ingrained desire to simplify even if that means squeezing into one single number matters that are too rich to be described that way.

My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.

Outside of that it is the magnitude that counts.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk, and it would be unfair, wrong, and downright insulting to measure them in the talk department.

have made the claim that most of history comes from Black Swan events, while we worry about fine-tuning our understanding of the ordinary, and hence develop models, theories, or representations that cannot possibly track them or measure the possibility of these shocks.

Como somos infelices, queremos ver a nuestro alrededor, por todas partes, escenas trágicas, sangrientas y solemnes, y ya no sabemos celebrar la fragilidad, la delicadeza y la medida.

man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.

I've often thought that the unit of measure that best suits prose is the human breath

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things, the figure of him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

Moderation is never something I've been good at.

Net wealth is a great way to measure riches, but not such a good way to measure poverty. Lots of people have zero, or less than zero. Some of them are destitute; others, like the junior doctor, are going to be fine.

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

First, truth is made up of information and facts, but it also includes God's original intent, which makes it the absolute standard by which you can measure everything else. Second, truth has already been predetermined—decided ahead of time—by God. And third, what is true of you on the inside needs to be true of you on the outside.

However, the Lord wanted His shepherds to know that He is the standard by which everything else should be measured. He is the bar that separates right from wrong. His name is the name by which we distinguish

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Rather than probability, one can speak of a measure of the disorder of the atoms, because the equivalent disordered states (for a given macroscopic state) are very many and the probability that one of them occurs is extremely high. We shall discuss this paper in detail in Chapter 6.

Time, as Aristotle suggested, is the measure of change;