I was praised a lot and condemned more than once for my works, and I came to the conclusion that the measure of the progress of creativity in life should be good, not evil.
Reality has become much scarier than any, even tasteless, imagination. And it should be shown that way. The human soul is measured to its full extent, and such that the world did not even suspect. Books and films about our truth, about our people must crackle with horror, suffering, anger and the unheard-of power of the human spirit.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
“The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”
You cannot advance a single step till you are in some good measure possessed of this comparative indifference to the favour of men.
—William Wilberforce
Oh quicken me in thy righteousness. Give me all holy affections in their just measure of vigour and force.
—William Wilberforce
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
—Henry David Thoreau
A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
—Charles Darwin
All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.
—Julius Caesar
All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle.
—Heraclitus
I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
—Plato
The value of a man is measured in the number of those who stand beside him, not those who follow.
—Socrates
His mercy & grace are infinite & His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their affection.
—Tozer
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
—Albert Einstein
When a man compares himself with others: thus measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we show our folly and nourish our pride; but if any man will compare his own life with Christ’s, he will find abundant cause at every time to be humbled.
—John Flavel
Don’t use dollars to measure a man’s wealth.
—Peter R. Rose
Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.
—John Locke