Top 1200 Measure Quotes & Sayings

We must measure what leads to results, not simply what is easy to measure.

Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

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.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

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

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.

There is something that pretends to be christianity which is mostly mood. The measure of its faith is merely the measure of its feeling.

I don't measure myself against my coaches, I don't measure myself against my teammates. If I'm doing jiu-jitsu for sport, I don't measure myself against the guy I'm rolling with or whatever belt he is or how many stripes he has on his belt. I measure myself every day against the guy I was yesterday.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it Things you measure tend to improve.

Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.

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

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary poverty.

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

The measure of a life is a measure of love and respect, So hard to earn so easily burned In the fullness of time, A garden to nurture and protect It's a measure of a life The treasure of a life is a measure of love and respect, The way you live, the gifts that you give In the fullness of time, It's the only return that you expect

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.

The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.

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.

There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!

As Angelo discovered in Measure for Measure, nothing corrupts like virtue.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.

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

You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.

My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired.

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.

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.

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.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

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.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

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.

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

To measure the man, measure his heart.

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

The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime.

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

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.

The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative.

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.