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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. -- Bill Gates
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. -- Arthur Erickson
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it. -- Erma Bombeck
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. -- Pablo Picasso
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs. -- Jonathan Kozol
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. -- Polly Toynbee
Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls. -- Ann Voskamp
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. -- Jack LaLanne
Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches. -- David Bromstad
The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again -- Jennifer Estep
Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man. -- Ai Weiwei
Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give -- Robert Long
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger. -- Gloria Naylor
Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value. -- John Ralston Saul
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. -- Ingrid Newkirk
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight -- Delia Smith
The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input. -- Louis O. Kelso
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great -- Chris Van Allsburg
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. -- Chris Van Allsburg
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. -- Bill Gates
There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility. -- Karl Lehmann
For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy. -- Richard P. Feynman
Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them. -- John Dewey
Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves. -- Michelle Obama
Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements. -- Danny Meyer
Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment. -- Grover Norquist
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. -- Tullian Tchividjian
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium. -- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. -- Johannes Peter Muller
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density. -- John L. Phillips
You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days. -- Beth Gibbons
I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?' -- Caroline Knapp
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being. -- Ha-Joon Chang
The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin. -- Al Jourgensen
The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds. -- Seth Shostak
Romney is a classic case of re-invention. As governor of Massachusetts, he supported government-sponsored healthcare, was sympathetic to gay rights, and opposed harsh restrictions on abortion. After measuring the difference between the Massachusetts electorate and the national one to which he must now appeal, he has reversed those positions. -- Stephen Kinzer
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. -- Sugata Mitra
Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? -- Cynthia P. Schneider
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings. -- Dallas Willard
The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded. -- Mark McKinnon
In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere. -- Charles Fort
There is no good way of measuring poverty. -- Milton Friedman
The measure of love is to love without measuring. -- Saint Augustine
When you are measuring life, you are not living it. -- Mitch Albom
The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them. -- Richard Bentall
Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler. -- Sun Myung Moon
Space is a way of measuring time; time is a way of measuring space. -- Deepak Chopra
Guns are like thermometers, only instead of measuring body temperatures they measure our fear. -- Jean Zimmerman
They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it. -- Rush Limbaugh
By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State -- Ian Mcewan
Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. -- Alan Watts
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. -- Carl Sandburg
Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth. -- Robin Sharma
It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring -- J. W. N. Sullivan
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. -- Michelangelo
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important -- Seth Godin
Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others. -- Bernard Malamud
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence. -- Therese of Lisieux
Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. -- James Balog
'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second... -- Clive Woodward
Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan. -- Michael S. Smith
Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best. -- George Jones
A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight. -- Delia Smith
You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience. -- Mary Elizabeth Winstead
When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash. -- Bruce Berkowitz
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. -- Philip Yancey
Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father. -- Iyanla Vanzant
He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish? -- William Gaddis
If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working? -- Paul Ryan
I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled. -- Dan Rather
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. -- Oscar W. Firkins
I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms. -- Niles Eldredge
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. -- Maurice Kendall
One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. -- Elliott Abrams
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. -- Frank Herbert
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing. -- Washington Irving
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. -- Paul J. Meyer
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make. -- Bill Watterson
Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint. -- Jan Chipchase
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. -- Sam Houston
I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point? -- Claire Messud
There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse. -- Eric Hoffer
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. -- Galileo Galilei
When we measure something we are forcing an undetermined, undefined world to assume an experimental value. We are not measuring the world, we are creating it. -- Niels Bohr
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them. -- William Bernbach
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means. -- Seth
Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought -- Willard Fiske
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success. -- Denis Waitley
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons. -- Rachael Ray
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow. -- George Eliot
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm. -- Ambrose Bierce
Physicists are interested in measuring neutrino properties because they tell us about the structure of the Standard Model, the well-tested theory that describes matter's most basic elements and interactions. -- Lisa Randall
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant. -- Plato
Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror. -- Carl von Clausewitz
In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. -- Arthur Eddington
If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert. -- John F. Kerry
The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being. -- Vironika Tugaleva
Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it. -- Joseph Heller
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth. -- John Caudwell
Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line. -- Jean Shepherd
It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need. -- Jan Cox Speas
Constantly measuring ourselves against others sours and shortens our lives, robbing us of the very things we think it will bring: prosperity, love, inner peace, the knowledge that we're good enough. -- Martha Beck
Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein. -- Guy Finley
It's remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring. Just archaic stuff. Now, it's like one guy with a laptop. -- Tom Felton
Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense... -- Hermann Bondi
It is the worst way that big power could act, it is arrogance, it is proudness, it is measuring of one's decision in accordance to his bigness, unfortunately, therefore lack of any wisdom... -- Siad Barre
We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life. -- Charles Kettering
I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track. -- Barack Obama
Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for clothes, but it's not what you want in real life. Why do we have to keep looking at ourselves and measuring? -- Demi Moore

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