#measured

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? ↗

— Jessamyn West

#her #man #measured #my soul #my time

Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. ↗

— Doug Ose

#broadcast #community #contemporary #currently #depict

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that. ↗

— Anita Roddick

#award #been #body #body shop #created

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. ↗

— Junius

#integrity #measured #men #professions #their

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

#ambition #being #comic #enough #finally

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

#decided #decision #fact #haven #measured

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

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

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

— Orlando Gibbons

#everything #measured #music #proportion #universe

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