Quotes About Being Measured

#1. Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

Origen

#2. Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.

Terry Pratchett

#3. She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.

Madeleine L'Engle

#4. When it comes to work, there is a fear factor around meritocracy. People are afraid of being openly judged. However, when you know what you are being measured against, it's empowering.

Maynard Webb

#5. This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

Charles Francis Richter

#6. I was being measured against the expectation that any feminist had to be unattractive in a conventional sense - and then described in contrast to that stereotype. The subtext was: If you could get a man, why would you need equal pay?

Gloria Steinem

#7. Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#8. In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.

John Linder

#9. Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.

Tim Gunn

#10. Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.

Norm MacDonald

#11. Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

John Smith

#12. America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

Helen Boosalis

#13. Farther the government must not go. It must not attempt any service of any kind for the people, from the mere mechanism of carrying their letters to that most arrogant and ill-conceived of universal schemes, the education of their children.

Auberon Herbert

#14. You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard, administered

Lindy West

#15. Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

George Eliot

#16. There wasn't much that scared her. She was the strongest person I'd ever known. And I'm not talking about the kind of strength that's measured by the number of reps someone can perform. I'm talking about being fearless. About standing up for yourself. About not caring what people think.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#17. I owe a lot of people an apology. I hurt a lot of people. Not just my wife. My friends, my colleagues, the public, kids who looked up to me. There were a lot of people that thought I was a different person and my actions were not according to that.

Tiger Woods

#18. I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

Ray Ozzie

#19. Darwin, as twelve minutes was the

Thea Hayes

#20. I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Tom Stoppard

#21. I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

G. Dep

#22. Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.

Alan Cohen

#23. There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

Bill Sienkiewicz

#24. Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30

Beth Moore

#25. Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

Ann Voskamp

#26. But it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours- being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.

John Steinbeck

#27. In short, health is measured by the shock a person can take without his usual way of life being compromised

Moshe Feldenkrais

#28. He enters my space, gives me a brief, sincere hug, then steps back, tripping on the curb. His face beams red - handsome and sweet.

Angela Carlie

#29. The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Robert Kiyosaki

#30. The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

Carl Sagan

#31. Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Maya Angelou

#32. Acid strength is measured by the pH scale, with lower numbers being stronger, and in 2005 a chemist from New Zealand invented a boron-based acid called a carborane, with a pH of -18

Sam Kean

#33. The well-being of the biosphere is measured over millennia of history and necessitates a human consciousness that can reflect and project along a similar time table.

Jeremy Rifkin

#34. What ability there is in an individual may be measured by the yardstick of how far there is between his understanding and his will. What a person can understand he must also be able to force himself to will. Between understanding and willing is where excuses and evasions have their being.

Soren Kierkegaard

#35. What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant 'well-being,' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

John Ruskin

#36. Pleasure and well-being is negative and suffering positive, the happiness of a given life is not to be measured according to the joys and pleasures it contains but according to the absence of the positive element, the absence of suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#37. My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Graham Norton

#38. Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

A.A. Gill

#39. Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.

Julius Evola

#40. Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

George Clinton

#41. I was learning the hard way that the gospel alone can free us from our addiction to being liked - that Jesus measured up for us so that we wouldn't have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others.

Tullian Tchividjian

#42. My God, woman. Your aura is glowing. Just admit you like him, bump uglies, and get on with your life!

Kim Harrison

#43. It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold ... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

Mary E. Pearson