38 Measuring Quotes for You to Enjoy

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life. Tullian Tchividjian

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Eyes World Looking Sense Others Through Self Contempt Looks Always Tape Sensation Pity Measuring Amused Peculiar

People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. P. J. O'Rourke

People Measurement Free Think Market Bathroom Philosophy Those Scale Free Market Simply None Tape Measuring Things Creed

Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Relation Location Station Parameters Area Instruments Geology Test Yield Site Depends Measuring Multiple Nuclear Number

Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that 'gay' is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Alan K. Simpson

Gay Man Woman Commitment Goals Rich Lesbian Says About Had Shared Performance Since Come Category Openly Knowing Person American Artificial Little Realize Working Measuring Many Satisfaction

I sometimes see People On The Internet decrying work-in-progress tweets and posts as worthless. 'Measuring output by quantity rather than quality is dangerous,' they say. 'More work doesn't mean better work!' Antony Johnston

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days. Beth Gibbons

Music Time Needs You Sometimes Try Three Every Every Time Angle Something Feel Days Come Know Another Up Fitting Trying Frustrating Measuring Searching Start

I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?' Caroline Knapp

Health Great Walk Club Other Immediate Locker Locker Room Self Weight Feel Toward How Impulse Gained Against Room Scrutiny Measuring Compare Thighs Thin Fat

I prefer to make my own coffee at home because I love the experience of measuring out the beans and finding the right grind setting, messing with water amounts, etc. It's truly an art form, and I'm obsessed with it. In L.A., I love Blue Bottle and Intelligentsia and used to hang at Bru in Los Feliz. Chris Wood

Love Art Home Experience Water Coffee Own Setting Out Finding My Own Beans Bottle Obsessed Make Because Messing Los Truly Art Form Intelligentsia Blue Hang Form Etc Grind Prefer Used Measuring Right Amount

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? Cynthia P. Schneider

Success Education Attitude Creative Book People Result Diplomacy Feeling Understanding Increase Changes Abandoning Exchange Empathy Performance Stereotypes Quantify Does How Cultural Cultures Any Form Regions Across Use Creative Expression Measuring Expression Film Challenging

Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements. Danny Meyer

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals. Edith Widder

Light Degree Animals Completion Dim Triggers Emission Color Major Wrote Instrument Very Flashes Grant Electrical Measuring Thesis Activity Professor

Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system. Irwin Rose

Change Behavior Other State Complex Complex System System Variable Steady Rates More Study Concentration Know Likely Reactions Effect Cell Want Formation Product Measuring Initial Function Biologists

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry. James Balog

Science Important About Dry Itself Very Measuring Things Numbers

There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better. Jamie Johnson

We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. Johannes P. Muller

Light Opportunity Space Nervous Power Action Immense Propagation Case Shall Through Attain Never Velocity Measuring Comparing

I like the exactness of baking. I'm not someone who's like, 'I'll just throw a bunch of stuff together. This is gonna taste delicious.' I am a rule follower: I really like the measuring. It's completely tedious, but I love that. It's calming. And I am a total sweetaholic. Madeline Brewer

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded. Mark McKinnon

Law Debate Will Accountability Sense Congress President Adequately About Only Student Performance Makes Real Truly Left Child Behind Just Enduring Whether Bush Inaugurated Act Coalition Engineered Standards Measuring Bipartisan

We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning. Naveen Tewari

You Innovation Management Goals Try Year Down Everyone Those System Put Performance Sort Because Dealing Quarter Any Where Against Meaning Then Your Paying Measuring Started

I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them. Pamela Adlon

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Polly Toynbee

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