Don't measure what you can. Measure what you should. — Philip Sheldrake
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. — Grace Hopper
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head. — Howard G. Hendricks
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you. — Morgan Freeman
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements. — George Bernard Shaw
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. — Galileo Galilei
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing. — Abu Bakr
If you can't measure it, you can't change it. — Peter Drucker
You can’t measure the whole world with your own yardstick. — Yiddish Proverbs
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul. — Ann Voskamp
If you can not measure it, you can not improve it. — Lord Kelvin
The measure of love is to love without measuring. — Saint Augustine
Scotch Tape Quotes
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape. — Richard Scarry
If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples. — Demetri Martin
I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater. — Jean Rosenthal
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]....If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape. — Dave Barry
My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. — Rodney Dangerfield
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together. — Oprah Winfrey
Measure your success not by the things you collect, but by the lives you affect.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I remember when your average NFL player would come to the sideline, spit out three bicuspids, Scotch-tape his humerus together and get back out there. — Rick Reilly
The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together. — Gene Shue
If a guy has a really good success pattern, I'll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape. — Raymond Herzog
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters. — Anne Fadiman
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. — W. E. B. Du Bois
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you. — Paul J. Meyer
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers. — Sam Houston
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.
How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile. — Henry David Thoreau
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be. — Jack LaLanne
People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement. — P. J. O'Rourke
The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens. — Gu Cheng
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat! — Jack LaLanne
The tape measure doesn't lie. Get that tape measure out and put it on your hips and your waist. Keep checking it. And keep exercising and cutting those calories down until that tape measure gets close to where you were in your prime. — Jack LaLanne
Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
It should be the same as it was when you were a young person. — Jack LaLanne
Power is a big thing in baseball. It can't be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn't. It isn't a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it's a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle. — Gabe Paul
People focus too much on weight, dress sizes, and tape measurements - and those aren't motivating. What gets me going is: I'm 52, and because I work out, I know my fitness will improve and my immune system will stay strong, and my body will prevent injuries. I like being fit, strong, coordinated, and agile. — Tony Horton
I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure. — Groucho Marx
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. — John Hutton
The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie. — Daley Thompson
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves. — Chris Bohjalian
To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head. — John C. Maxwell
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer. — Clare Boothe Luce
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile! — Henry David Thoreau
You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other. — Groucho Marx
I’ve always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I’d kill myself if I was that fat…I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big. — Elizabeth Hurley
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART — Corrie Ten Boom
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