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Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily. -- Brian Tracy
Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means. -- George William Foote
Keep records of your fitness progress throughout your training. Chart all of the food you eat, the exercises you complete, and even the amount of sleep you get each night. Refer back to your records to see where things went right or went wrong. -- Robert Cheeke
Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that. -- Ivan Misner
What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling. -- Dermot Mulroney
If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to. -- Jonathan Ive
I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.' -- Janelle Monae
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. -- Mason Cooley
It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. -- Dan Quayle
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests. -- Noam Chomsky
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. -- Gregory Bateson
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. -- Amelia Earhart
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. -- Jean Piaget
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there. -- Christopher Walken
I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been. -- Lorde
I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve. -- Tom Hodgkinson
All women have appealing features. I do not refer to model-type appeal, but rather that which comes from your personality, your attitude, and your expressions. I urge you to enhance the natural, God-given, feminine gifts with which you have been so richly blessed. -- James E. Faust
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment. -- Jesse Jackson
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. -- Sonny Rollins
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success. -- Steven Pinker
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.' -- Sloane Crosley
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College. -- Godfried Danneels
I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too? -- Ayelet Waldman
The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else. -- Brian Eno
It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary. -- Rose George
There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together. -- Charlie Pierce
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy. -- Amy Sedaris
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. -- George Washington
Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as '4's'? -- Steven Wright
I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies. -- Jens Lekman
We refer to the TLC Match as totally lacking coolness. -- Edge
First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory. -- Mason Cooley
Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour. -- Phyllis Diller
I jokingly refer to the word 'gourmet' as the 'g' word. -- Arthur Schwartz
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We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member. -- Harry Reid
I refer to myself as gay, but I'm married to a man. -- Margaret Cho
What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.' -- Evan Sayet
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'. -- Edward Tufte
I don't know if I would refer to myself as a local celebrity. -- Joshua Greenberg
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause. -- Helen Keller
I always refer to [Stardust Memories] as Sharon Stone's and my first film. -- Brent Spiner
"God" is just a name to refer to something that is beyond all limitations. -- Jaggi Vasudev
To refer to the Church as a building is to call people 2 x 4's. -- Shane Claiborne
Is it bad when you refer to all alcohol as "Pain Go Bye-Bye Juice"? -- Patton Oswalt
Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks. -- Megyn Kelly
I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential. -- Catherine Stock
Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. -- Joe Baca
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. -- Thomas Harris
I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink. -- Mitch Daniels
I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.' -- Jacki Weaver
Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude" Eric Sinclair to Betsy -- MaryJanice Davidson
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. -- Ron Silver
I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career. -- Nolan Ryan
I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.' -- Kevin Chapman
There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation. -- Franz Kafka
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. -- Helena Bonham Carter
(...) Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right. -- Ned Vizzini
The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount. -- Barack Obama
It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory. -- Robertson Davies
The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful. -- Jon Stewart
A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. -- Sakyong Mipham
What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment. -- Ralph Merkle
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. -- George McGovern
Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1. -Duncan Howe -- Ann Brashares
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. -- Italo Calvino
I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. -- Henry Kravis
I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house. -- Wilma Scott Heide
Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet. -- Richard Armour
Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being. -- James Hillman
I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer. -- Kellan Lutz
I hate that we're always called "the all-female Ghostbusters," because you wouldn't refer to the original as "the all-male Ghostbusters." -- Paul Feig
When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you. -- Dane Cook
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. -- Malcolm X
What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Remember, when the writers refer to themselves as 'we' and to the reader as 'you,' this is two against one. -- Judith Rascoe
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law. -- Bill Vaughan
Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity. -- Frederick Lenz
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel. -- Spalding Gray
Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. -- Peter McWilliams
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. -- Thomas Sowell
I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it. -- Ronnie Apteker
When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time. -- Steven Petrow
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. -- Franz Grillparzer
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' -- Alton Brown
To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command -- Israelmore Ayivor
Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. -- William Hazlitt
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The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga. -- Jaggi Vasudev
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent... -- Bill Hicks
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. -- Anthony Bourdain
We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject. -- Roger Housden
What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies.The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect. -- Ann Barrett Batson
My studies with Botvinnik brought me immense benefit, particularly the homework assignments which forced me to refer to chess books and to work independently. -- Anatoly Karpov
Within Inspirational Psychology, health doesn't refer to just the state of the body, but also the state of the mind, which affects the body. -- Lee L Jampolsky
If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child. -- Russell Brand
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation. -- Giancarlo Esposito
You simply cannot trust or refer to your experience of your self to tell you what you are, to tell you the truth within. -- John de Ruiter
And one more thing...You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab. -- Khaled Hosseini
Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me. -- Stephen Baldwin
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. -- Bill Nye
Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name. -- Steven Burd
You might be a redneck if you refer to the time you won a free case of oil as the day my ship came in. -- Jeff Foxworthy
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation. -- Hester Lynch Piozzi
The term "intellectual" is used conventionally to refer to people who happen to have unusual opportunities in this regard, and as always, opportunity confers moral responsibility. -- Noam Chomsky
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship. -- Donald Bren
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. -- William Maxwell
Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren't real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations. -- Scott Adams
It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative. -- Roger Ballen
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical precedent. -- Brian Ferneyhough
In Buddhist Yoga, we refer to our mutlilife karmic traits as samskaras. They are the internal karmic patterns that make each of us who we are. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it. -- Shigeru Miyamoto

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