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- I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums. -- Christina Aguilera
- I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
- The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. -- Ramana Maharshi
- My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge. -- Dick Dale
- Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. -- Lance Loud
- It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues. -- Scarlett Johansson
- Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales. -- Jerry Cantrell
- 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. -- Roger Penrose
- The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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- Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down. -- Scott Weiland
- 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? -- Saint Bernard
- Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal? -- Mindy Kaling
- It feels like an easy sum to gauge the balance between forests and, say, the proliferating free newspapers that litter our public transport. This noxious combination of words and paper represents a clear-cut crime against the biosphere. -- Tristram Stuart
- Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little. -- Daniel Gilbert
- Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.' -- Will C. Barnes
- We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other. -- Carrie Preston
- Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
- In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. -- Wayne Dyer
- The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent. -- Arundhati Roy
- Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. -- Nathan Myhrvold
- I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in. -- Ian MacKaye
- I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. -- Hunter S. Thompson
- When people buy, rescue, or otherwise acquire a dog from unscrupulous breeders or amateur rescue groups, they are making a decision with ethical consequences. They have a profound responsibility to consider their actions; to gauge the dog's behavior, to train it thoroughly and rigorously, to protect other humans and dogs from harm. -- Jon Katz
- I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down. -- Taran Killam
- You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power. -- Harbhajan Singh
- Historian - a broad-gauge gossip. -- Ambrose Bierce
- One must gauge one's trust carefully. -- Jacqueline Carey
- Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality -- Fraser Young
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- Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. -- Ambrose Bierce
- Power with God will be the gauge of real power with men. -- Hudson Taylor
- You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop. -- Cody Lundin
- I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years. -- Mohsin Hamid
- You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover. -- Richard St. Barbe Baker
- Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort. -- Terry Rossio
- People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten. -- J. Oswald Sanders
- Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
- Its easy to gauge the worth of a man, just ask them what they think of Yoko Ono. -- Owen Pallett
- Throughout the season, I look into my players eyes to gauge feelings, confidence levels, and to establish instant trust. -- Mike Krzyzewski
- There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power. -- Jim Butcher
- Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream. -- Henry David Thoreau
- Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on -- Kevin Kelly
- I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books. -- Timothy Ferriss
- The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. -- Cesare Pavese
- It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance. -- Arthur Smith
- I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church. -- Chris Tomlin
- Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it. -- Jonathan Chait
- Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two. -- Nik Halik
- The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe... -- Thorstein Veblen
- 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. -- Charlotte Beers
- 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. -- Alice Mattison
- 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. -- Rashida Jones
- 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. -- Missy Elliot
- 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. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
- It's this weird thing that I always feel like I have to gauge in myself, like, "Don't come on too strong because you won't get your way." -- Kristen Stewart
- The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well and therefore cannot gauge its costs accurately. -- Murray Rothbard
- Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are. -- Phil Callaway
- The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time. -- Robert Grudin
- 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. -- Marty Neumeier
- I've found that the way a person feels about cats-and the way they feel about him or her in return-is usually an excellent gauge by which to measure a person's character -- P. C. Cast
- 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. -- Wesley Morris
- I feel like I'm pretty good at doing my own makeup. I've watched a lot of people do my makeup, so I've been able to gauge what looks good and what doesn't. -- Margot Robbie
- That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted. -- Barry McGee
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- It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired. -- John Petrucci
- [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. -- Gordon Ramsay
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- I believe the printed word is more than sacred Beyond the gauge of good or bad The human right to let your soul fly free and naked Above the violence of the fearful and sad -- Andy Partridge
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