I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
There are many things you shouldn't measure. Don't, for example, try to measure how much you love your wife!
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.
Indeed, the history of 20th century physics was in large measure about how to avoid the infinities that crop up in particle theory and cosmology. The idea of point particles is convenient but leads to profound, puzzling troubles.
How do you measure your value?
We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.
I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
The triumph is that the waveform we measure is very well represented by solutions of these equations. Einstein is right in a regime where his theory has never been tested before.
I think your children are your measure of success, regardless of work and career.
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
Most Americans believe that with freedom comes responsibility - and that one measure of responsible gun ownership is a background check. There must be an app for that.
I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.