#measure

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

#differentiation #measured #progress #society #within

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. ↗

— Herbert Read

#believe #direct #economics #either #i

I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#believe #cut #date #deployment #free

But tending machinery was one thing; defining what we were trying to do and why we were doing it, and developing ways to measure how well the job was done - this was something else again. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#defining #developing #doing #done #else

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#am #feel #fun #having #i

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#cities #convinced #deal #extraordinary #face

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