There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Roper: A man's strength can be measured by his appetites. Indeed, a man's strength *flows* from his appetites.
The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
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.
There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the mind that we can't measure. We can't find it. With all our sophisticated equipment, we cannot monitor or define it, and yet it's there.
You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.
Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
It is true that women tend to be more identified with their bodies because in this crazy world, both men and women measure women's value as human beings in relationship to their physical appearance.
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
