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Measure Quotes

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

Work Trust Enough Worth You Measure

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

Brain Attention Measure Way Status

When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.

Man Tough Measure Perfect Up Pretty

I admire President Obama's class and measure.

Measure Admire Class President Obama

A man's measure is his will.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Man Measure Will His

We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.

Stars Moving Measure Look Far Away

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

Business Trust Someone Measure First

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Edward Thorndike

Measure Aim Psychology Probability

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Man Measure Of A Man Measure Way Up

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Benjamin Whichcote

Good Good And Evil Evil Measure Out

If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

Work People You Measure Test Build

I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.

Life Society My Life Someone Measure

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

Past Baseball Game Tradition Measure

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

Greatness Measure Down Up Must

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Measure Prosperity Virtue Difficult

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

People Dinner Measure Way Over

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

Good People Measure Wrong Right

The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in a regime where his theory has never been tested before.

Measure Triumph Never Right Theory

The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in large measure by a single executive took a couple of hundred years.

Transformation Measure Run Single

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Man Measure Of A Man Measure Must He

Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Goals Trust Progress Reach Measure

The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.

Richard Dawkins

Best People World Measure Down

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

Father Me Measure Wrong Comfortable

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Intelligence Action Measure Real

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