A Quote by Elizabeth Oakes Smith

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

Elizabeth Oakes Smith

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Capacity Either Man Measure Sphere Woman

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Poet
August 12, 1806 - November 16, 1893

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

David Quammen

Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes - which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.

Shaun King

Successful businesses measure and count things. I think that's a safe assumption on top of which we can drop the following hypothesis: unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.

Dick Costolo

Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

Larry Winget

Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

Henry Clay Trumbull

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

Sterling Hayden

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

Frank Lloyd Wright

You can't measure a man by his size. You measure him by the fight he has inside.

Renzo Gracie

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

Geoff Nicholson

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

David Mamet

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Frank Herbert

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Forbes

You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.