#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

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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured. ↗

— Origen

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In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa. ↗

— Horst Koehler

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We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

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Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

— Ralph W. Sockman

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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

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