#measured

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living. ↗

— Graham Norton

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You're measured by championships no matter what. ↗

— Candace Parker

#matter #measured #you

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves. ↗

— Bob Parsons

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#baseball #been #black #could #dirt

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#congregation #his #measured #minister #mortgage

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#basic #cannot #comfort #life #many

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#exertions #habitual #his #man #measured