Gauges Quotes - Page 3

• Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Country, Winning, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.21, Full Moon Publications

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• Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.

  Saint Augustine

  Love You, Mean, Love Is

  "The Confessions".

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• Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Girl, Running, Fighting

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• If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human honors this life, has genuine spiritual fire and is full of honest love and compassion, it has to be right there, in the eyes. The Dalai Lama's eyes sparkle and dance with laughter and unbridled love. The Pope's eyes are dark and glazed, bleak as obsidian marbles. Pat Robertson's eyes are rheumy and hollow, like tiny potholes of old wax. Goldman Sachs cretins, well, they don't use their own eyes at all; they just steal someone else's.

  Mark Morford

  Spiritual, Laughter, Real

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

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• One must gauge one's trust carefully.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Chosen”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Strong, Kissing

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• Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. 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. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Independence, Principles

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.877, Penguin

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• it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Home, Simple

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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Responsibility, Reality, Car

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• There is no truer gauge of a man's character than the way in which he employs his strength, his power.

  Jim Butcher

  Character, Men, Way

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.257, Penguin Group

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• To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation. Intuition is a neutral from of information that allows you to soberly gauge the validity of your worries. If you tune in and find out they're unfounded, you'll be relieved. If they are founded, you can develop a strategy to deal with them.

  Judith Orloff

  Worry, Intuition, Overcoming

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• We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

  Carrie Preston

  Self Worth, Quality, Connections

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

  Marcus Sakey

  Baseball, Moving, Mean

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling, the kind of feeling that comes when you gauge the distance to be jumped between two stones across a brook. Something within you disengages itself from your body and travels ahead with your vision to make the test. You can feel it try the jump as you stand looking. Then uncertainty gives way to the conviction that it can or can't be done.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Distance, Wind, Weather

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• In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound Chern-Weil theorem. I said I found it amazing that gauge fields are exactly connections on fiber bundles, which the mathematicians developed without reference to the physical world. I added, "this is both thrilling and puzzling, since you mathematicians dreamed up these concepts out of nowhere." He immediately protested: "No, no. These concepts were not dreamed up. They were natural and real."

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Beautiful, Real, Science

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• You're my depth gauge. If I see your hat floatin', I'll stop.

  Cody Lundin

  Survival, Depth, Hats

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• There are no limitations set by this electric universe upon any man's multiplication power. Each man sets his own limitations in accordance with his desires. He be a thin wire which gathers little energy and carries a weak current, or he may be a heavy one. That is true of all energy borrowed from the universe by all of us. It is there in unlimited quantities, but the gauge of the kind of wire each of us is set by ourselves.

  Walter Russell

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• I have a suggestion for all of those award seekers and blue ribbon hunters. Spend your efforts on making art that connects with people. Awards impress the grandkids but they don't move the gauge on selling your product. Art needs to touch the emotions of the buyer.

  Jack White

  Art, Moving, Awards

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• You can do all them push-ups to pump up your chest,
  I got a 12 gauge Mossberg to pump up your chest,
  Have you gasping for air after that shell hit your vest.
  Fear me like you fear God, 'cause I bring death.

  Curtis Jackson

  Rap, Air, Hip Hop

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• The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Believe, Editors, Firsts

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISE (Nature, Causes, Utility & Drift of Business Enterprise): A Political Economy Book”, p.177, e-artnow

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• Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we're doing.

  Alice Mattison

  Feelings, Easy, Standards

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't need the audience, but sometimes it's nice to have a gauge - not so I know how I feel, but so I get what is or isn't working for moviegoers.

  Wesley Morris

  Nice, Needs, Sometimes

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". The Believer interview, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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