#measured

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#economic #economic policies #failure #fear #gate

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

— Herbert Read

#differentiation #measured #progress #society #within

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#hour #measured #speeches #will

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

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#days #election #even #leadership #measured

It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#how #know #magnitude #measured #often

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#extent #inner #measured #progress #real

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. ↗

— Herbert Read

#deeper #existence #experience #human #human existence

Moreover, photography has made it possible to fix these images and now provides us with a permanent record of each observed spectrum, which can be measured out at any time. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#each #fix #images #made #measured

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#commodities #increased #inventions #labour #man