#measure

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#american #apologize #canadians #car #easily

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#gave #give #how #measure #money

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. ↗

— Camille Desmoulins

#clemency #measure #revolutionary

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #feedback #growth #measures #multiple

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens all the time. It's part of the natural cycle of things. We know from measurements that glaciers have been melting for 200 years at least. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#bad #because #been #cycle #falling

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #life #measured #my life #out

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#measure #placed #statistics #type #used

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. ↗

— Al Stewart

#days #down #eternity #far #here

To measure the man, measure his heart. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#his #man #measure