I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects. Ashton Eaton
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. Justin Cronin
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. Frederick Douglass
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable. Amy Jo Martin
I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places. Tim Ferriss
If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not. Tim Tebow
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier. Bode Miller
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way. Alain de Botton
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. Phyllis McGinley
Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. Paul Auster
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H.McGill
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King
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
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? Virginia Woolf
Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. Margaret Atwood