When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
In Bogotá, our goal was to make a city for all the children. The measure of a good city is one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can safely go anywhere. If a city is good for children, it will be good for everybody else. Over the last 80 years we have been making cities much more for cars' mobility than for children’s happiness.
I don't measure success by how many buildings have my name on it.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them.
The measure of a country's greatness should be based on how well it cares for its most vulnerable populations.
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
Justice always whirls in equal measure.
In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 911 than it ever had. On 911, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.
Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World. . . and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.
The true measure of greatness of a human being is their ability to express love in relationship.
There's nothing cutting edge about what I'm trying to do. I'm not creating a new sound. I'm not like Bjork, who's an alien from another world. I'm of the earth. You could extract any measure of music out of anything I've ever done and you could find its affiliations in music history.
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle.
As to a media personality, well that just happened in large measure because people found me amusing, and I did lots and lots of T. V. news interview shows.
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.