Gauges Quotes - Page 2

• The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s
  wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.
  Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

  Marty Neumeier

  Music, Past, Play

  Marty Neumeier (2009). “The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation”, p.27, Peachpit Press

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• Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.

  Shigeo Shingo

  Cutting, Reality, Ideas

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• Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Religious, Real, Mistake

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• Don't let a grade decide your self-worth. Personally, in my opinion, someone should gauge their self-worth on what they've accomplished that makes them feel good... not in the hedonist aspect, but in the sense of personal accomplishment, as far as what they've accomplished for them, as far as their self-development and creativity is concerned.

  Brandon Boyd

  Creativity, Self Worth, Accomplishment

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Order, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

  Amanda Ripley

  Kids, Risk, Everyday

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• Most of us, when asked to gauge the richness of our lives, think immediately of people. Those who have cried with us, laughed with us, and shaped who we are.

  Phil Callaway

  Life, Thinking, People

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.137, Harvest House Publishers

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• The men at the top aren't that great at properly assessing the women under them, certainly not enough to gauge their potential or intestinal fortitude.

  Charlotte Beers

  Men, Fortitude, Enough

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• You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Country, Real, Tree

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• Show me the condition of your Bible and I will accurately gauge the condition of your soul.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Soul, Show Me, Shows

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• That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

  Barry McGee

  Cities, Competition, Healthy

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• Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

  John Updike

  Song, Attitude, War

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.462, Random House

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• The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Depression, Sound, Looks

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• I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the original strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after, and the rest is the perquisite of the rocks and trees and beasts. Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts, the very undertow of our life's stream.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Night, Echoes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Impact, Order, Wages

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

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• Find out what your passions are and gauge your limit. Because success requires hard work and perseverance and sadly, not everyone has the two.

  Nik Halik

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Passion

  FaceBook post by Nik Halik from Jul 26, 2012

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• Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Next Week, Meals, Littles

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• Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Hippie, Gun, Past

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• We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Christian, Character, People

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• They wanna hang us, see us dead, or enslave us, keep us trapped in the same place we raised in. Then they wonder why we act so outrageous, run around stressed out and pull out gauges.

  Dr. Dre

  Running, Revenge, Stressed

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• I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Law, People, Trying

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Done

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.75, Penguin

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• Can you imagine the hopelessness of trying to live a spiritual life when you’re secretly looking up at the skies not for illumination or direction, but to gauge, miserably, the odds of rain?

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Rain, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.204, Anchor

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• You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.

  Jonathan Franzen

  The End Of The Day, Misery, Hours

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.255, Macmillan

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