#measure

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. ↗

— Daniel Webster

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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. ↗

— Jack Welch

#measure #our people #people #take #those

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#else #evil #good #good and evil #lay

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#achievements #asking #envisaged #had #him

We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. ↗

— Amar Bose

#angles #arriving #audience #back #boston

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#analysis #appreciation #beauty #course #gave

In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#am #cover #extreme #fate #gun

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#assistance #been #eligible #find #full

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#banquet #century #done #head #living

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#better #concern #criminals #few #handles