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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
There's a tendency to dismiss anything having to do with love and intimacy in medicine because it's hard to measure.
It's important to recognise that humans are not the measure of all things... The Earth is the measure of all things.
My goal as a comedian is to sway people's opinion. It's not my only goal and it's not the only way I measure myself.
According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.
Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
We have to treat people who cross our borders with a measure of dignity. Right? It has to be reflective of our values.
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
I don't measure my performances in goals any more, it's more important that my team-mates see how hard I work for them.
Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
It's gratifying to work for somebody who doesn't measure accomplishment by the temporary state of public-opinion polls.
You should measure me by my actions, the friends I keep, and the charities I support, not by the politics of my husband.
I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.
A healthy plant is one that adapts best to the situation in which it finds itself. There is no objective measure of this.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.
It doesn't matter what size your hips are when you measure them. It's about, 'Do you feel good and healthy in those hips?'
As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
I think the media, by and large, if you look at surveys over the years, has never been conservative-leaning by any measure.
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
One common desire that every human being has is to love and be loved. At the end of our lives, it's how we measure our lives.
When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
I personally have a silver idol of Lord Ganesh that I reuse every year. Don't measure your devotion with the size of the idol.
In a play you can witness your audience live, understand how they feel. It lets you evaluate yourself and measure your growth.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
What leads to a growth - skills, demographics, natural resources, democracy, entrepreneurship - India has in abundant measure.
In order to properly measure the impacts of climate change on our Financial system they must first be identified and disclosed.
I'm fascinated by movies and enjoy that, of course, but always, the measure of how you are functioning in the arts was theater.