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Measuring Up Quotes

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up. Terry Prachett
Jack Welch quote: "You measure your people and you take action on those that..."
You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. Jack Welch
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential. Thomas S. Monson
.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up." Collin Danielle Steel
Richard Wagner quote: "I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and..."
I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. Richard Wagner
I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think? Jodi Picoult
Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the... Baltasar Gracian
Joe Biden quote: "But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all..."
But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common... Joe Biden
It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have... Louis L'Amour
Haruki Murakami quote: "As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had..."
As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to. Haruki Murakami
Bryant H. McGill quote: "The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime..."
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H. McGill
Gabriel Marcel quote: "But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures..."
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. Gabriel Marcel
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. John Malkovich
Walter Lord quote: "You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are..."
You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect. Walter Lord

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