#measure

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. ↗

— Sam Houston

#always #class #extreme #favor #invested

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#became #berkeley #economic #interests #main

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. ↗

— Vince Lombardi

#who

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. ↗

— Yann Martel

#death #human #individual #measure #out

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement. ↗

— Mary C. Jones

#been #closer #contact #degree #each

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#career #commodity #couples #different #finding

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#greatness #mansion #measure #must #up

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#adopted #constitute #ever #greatest #guarantee

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#customer #customer service #effective #how #improve