We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
Robert Kennedy
AchievementProgressPurposeMeasure
I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.
Manal al-Sharif
I AmImpactBetterDoingMeasureAm
Put your goals on paper, or an Excel spreadsheet. Measure every day, 'Did I do my best to...?' Your problems won't disappear, but you will exist in a different relation to them, and you will improve.
Marshall Goldsmith
GoalsBestDayProblemsYouMeasure
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova
WorkHard WorkSuccessMeasureHard
I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?
Ina Garten
TimeThinkMeasureWantWhyWay
Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.
Leon Panetta
SuccessWinningEnoughMeasureSafe
Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.
Michael Greger
ControlExerciseMeasureAgainst
The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
Han Fei
MenLawMeasureIntelligentJudgment
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Justin Cronin
WritingMeasureCareerPersonJust
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden
YourselfYouMeasureAbilityYour
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Abraham Lincoln
GreatMeasureDeadDevotionTaskUs
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
James Gleick
TimeNew YorkFlyMeasureNewThree
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.
James Larkin
LifeJusticeMenControlMeasure
Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.
Steve Erickson
BusinessHistoryDatingYouMeasure
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst
SuccessBestYouMeasureGoalOwn
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
Henry Petroski
FailureEngineeringResultMeasure
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
Sonia Sotomayor
LifeMeasurePersonalMoreWrite
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
Greg Boyle
WisdomCompassionSocietyMeasureUp
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.
Tony Judt
AgeBestThinkMeasureBeyondMean
To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.
Gerald Vann
HopeResponsibilityHelpMeasureOur
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
Robert Burns
DailyI AmMePovertyMeasureMeet
The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Eric Liu
CommunityAgingMeasurePossible
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Roy L. Smith
ResponsibilityManMeasureAccept
In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'
Ellsworth Kelly
EyeDrawingMeasureParisWaySaw
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