Top 188 Gauge Quotes & Sayings

For me, the biggest gauge for success in a project is people's reaction to it and what they're saying about it and if they're sharing it on social media.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

We grew up with a different gauge on what pop is. Pop for us was INXS and John Farnham.

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.

It is fun, I learned, to stroll around with Spike Lee and to gauge other people's reactions. Everyone recognizes him.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.

Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

I can gauge how a horse is feeling.

In fact, my favorite Beatles song is "In My Life." And from that, you can gauge that my friends mean so much to me. I love John Lennon, so it's kind of like moody... There's a lot you can gauge from that. As insignificant as it seems, as an actor, it's an interesting way to approach a character.

Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

[Molecular gastronomy] was a great trend, because it experimented with food. The benchmark was [former elBulli head chef] Ferran Adrià, and now he is no longer there it is harder to gauge.

When you're promoting a film it's really interesting trying to gauge what people think about it.

I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.

Typically, the thinner the gauge of a pan, the more intense the hot and cool spots that form on its interior, which can lead to uneven cooking.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

I always gauge the deliciousness of the food in markets by the number of 'people eating and waiting - the more the better.

I'm most looking forward to bowling at the international players - it will be a gauge to see where I'm at and if I'm ready for international cricket.

The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

To discover how much of our resources must be mobilized for war, we must first examine our political aim and that of the enemy. We must gauge the strength and situation of the opposite state. We must gauge the character and abilities of its government and people and do the same in regard to our own. Finally, we must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect the war may have on them.

The way I think of it is that Russia is not going to change fundamentally. They may change tactics; they may look at their interests and figure out what actions they take, but they're not going to change fundamentally. And they're going to try to gauge what will the responses be to things that they do, and what will our things be. And here, they do wonder what is the level of our resolve? How far are we willing to go? And that is something that is very hard to gauge.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

When certain stars take you under their wing, it does help as they gauge your potential and are willing to work with you.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.

I gauge if I can create a different a woman. But sometimes, you feel the character isn't given enough space to perform.

We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono.

If you don't have negative experiences, you have no way to gauge the positive ones, and you have no way to deal with it.