Measuring Quotes - page 4

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? (Cynthia P. Schneider)
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. View quote
Polly Toynbee
Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun. View quote
Zeresenay Alemseged
One of the pupils of Artur Schnabel told me that he never heard his teacher practice a difficult passage slowly, but he was struck by the way Schnabel would play one chord of a slow movement over and over, measuring and remeasuring the different components of the harmony. View quote
Charles Rosen
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. View quote
Dallas Willard
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. View quote
Ezra Taft Benson
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. View quote
Jack LaLanne
As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point. View quote
James Truslow Adams
The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions. View quote
Murray Gell-Mann
The principal distortion disseminated ... is the implication, or even the explicit claim, that measuring the polarization, circular or plane, of one of the. (Murray Gell-Mann)
Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling Had ever got below the floor Or penetrate the ceiling ~ Destination. View quote
Steve Kilbey
What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not. They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong? View quote
John le Carré
I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
Well, I think it [painting] is a life measuring stick. And I'm concerned with being myself, getting to know more and more what that is, what is possible, and what the real meaning of beauty and development is. I'm concerned with development and growth. But I am in my everyday life. I hate to feel deadly. But that does not mean that repetition or experiment isn't in the total picture of growth and development. And I think that pace and place differently at different times for each person. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler
The light is Charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God. View quote
Julian of Norwich
The bourgeoisie first betrayed society through capitalism and finance, and now labor betrays it by embracing a scheme of things which sees profit only, not duty and honor, in work. This view will seem hopelessly unrealistic to those who do not admit that sentiment toward the whole is the only ultimate means of measuring value. View quote
Richard Weaver
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. View quote
Rachael Ray
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge. View quote
Alan K. Simpson
Previous to the time of Pascal, who would have thought of measuring doubt and belief? (William Stanley Jevons)
We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers. View quote
Richard Leakey
True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard. View quote
Irving Babbitt
When you are measuring life, you are not living it. View quote
Mitch Albom
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus