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We're not very good at forecasting, and we don't know how to measure the impact of economic policy.
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.
One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.
If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.
I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a tablespoon is a full palm of dried spices.
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.
You can't really measure your game. You can shoot seven under and lose and you can shoot even and win.
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.
If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
There's risk in everything that you do. It's up to you to measure those risks and do what you want to do.
I measure the impact I make by how harsh the attacks are. The harsher the attacks, the better I am doing.
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.
And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
I'm not a vindictive person. But I do want to shine a light on human frailty and heroism in equal measure.
You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.
The beauty of an art project is that you cannot always measure the impact, but one day it can become clear.
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
We shouldn't measure everything in terms of GDP figures or economics. There is something called quality of life.
All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
British Forces should be in a position to give back in a ten fold measure any attack that the Germans may attempt.
I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.
I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
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.