Barometer Quotations

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

There's been times where I've come out of the bullpen thinking I was going to throw a no hitter, and I've lasted two or three innings. So I try not to use my pre-game warm ups as a barometer of how I'm going to pitch.

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

Yes, Barometer was written in Key West and I did spend many hours at the library there. Every song on that album has a literary connection.

We have never really used the stock market itself as a barometer of our success,

To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything?

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

Layton's always kind of been the barometer of where we're at as a team. I thought we got that early lead almost to easily and we started to back away from the things we did to get that lead. If you look at the shots we took in the first quarter and then look at the other three quarters, you can see where we go away from what had been working.

Some of make-up's perennials have disappeared off the beauty barometer this season, replaced by a new, less obvious class of looks that takes elements of make-up past but gives them a modern edge,

Nobody here has taken him and put him in a chair and tried to get him wound up so tight that he can't perform by breaking down his mechanics, ... We've kept things as simple as possible for a young left-handed pitcher to go out there and perform. I really believe that, at this point and time in the season, this is one of the more challenging things that's happened to him in his career. This'll be a good barometer of who and what he is.

Certainly, ... I think it's a big game early in the season. It's a good barometer for us to see where we stand.

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He's a barometer a lot for us. ... I was not as concerned about him not scoring or shooting or not being aggressive, but his rebounding totals were way down. He had some games in the first half where he'd come in with zero or one.

Gold is as much a mirror of current human events as it is a barometer of future asset values.

Historically, it's not like GM has always been a great company. It's had it's cyclical down periods. But you need to look at the import of GM, not as much a stock but as a barometer of the economy.

This was a good barometer for us. Pella shoots the ball a lot better than it shot (Tuesday) too, and I'd like to think our defense had a little bit to do with that. They missed a few shots inside and they have a tendency to snowball on you.

It has been an extremely successful year for Belle Rock Entertainment and it's a tremendous honor to end 2005 by being recognized in such a positive way by our players. The GOM Awards are extremely well known in the industry and are deemed to be a good barometer of success. It is certainly heartening to see that the various products in the Belle Rock Entertainment portfolio are recognized by both players and industry experts for the excellent quality entertainment they offer and these accolades will serve to inspire us to reach even greater heights next year.

People are going to say what they want to say. We want to follow the same barometer for all cases, and we worked hard to do that here.

Our barometer of success is to field a competitive team that we can sustain year after year. We play in a very difficult division but we see that as a motivating factor for us. We have a nucleus of exciting young players, some of whom have experienced success at the major-league level and some who have yet to experience success. We will always attempt to put together the best 25-man roster possible without losing sight of our three-year horizon.

Part of the reason the January barometer works so well is a statistical faux pas. It uses January to predict the year, not the following 11 months.

I was very conscious of (players') minutes and in the end I was very conscious of health. Today is not a good barometer to judge us.

That was a new brand, and certainly now that it's established with a very loyal following and given the amount of hype and buzz they created, that is one barometer of what possibly could have been.

Most employees view base salary as a barometer of their worth, so thinking about a steady decrease in the amount of money being provided to them has had a psychological impact. That's why organizations looked to variable pay as a way to counteract that -- until recently.

Michigan Sentiment may be the key to activity today. Otherwise it may be a case for waiting for some confessional news next week and the next quarter's results from Morgan Stanley, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers often a good barometer of economic and business activity.

We carry out this competitive performance barometer for the airline industry each year,

To be concerned about the strength of consumer spending is wise. Wal-Mart as a barometer of consumer spending is significant. Consumer spending will start to moderate off of its hot pace in the second-half of the year.

The Readers' Choice Award is a barometer of PerfectDisk's success in the Windows market. These two awards highlight the importance of PerfectDisk's key differentiators -- free space consolidation and complete single pass defragmentation. The overwhelming response from users is the ultimate validation of PerfectDisk. By consistently listening to their feedback we continue to break new ground.

Tourism is a barometer of normalcy, and tourism is doing exceptionally well. Of course, we are starting from a low base, but we are a rising star in Europe.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

We should start getting a good barometer on the guys as far as endurance is concerned. So much of golf of battling through and being mentally tough when you're tired, and I think coming down the stretch, we're going to be tested on that.

This will be a good barometer for us because this is by far the best team we've played and maybe will play. They are a football team that is not used to losing at all. For them to come off a tough loss against Carolina has really probably compounded the challenge that we have.

We're not lying to the kids. We know we're not going to win the dual. What we're looking to do is to win as many matches as we can and wrestle well. We want to use it as a barometer going into the sectional.

We love the challenge. I've always been that way. It's a nice barometer for us. They may shut us out. Nobody in the gym will think we can win and that's the most fun to play a game, when no one thinks you can win.

We've only won one game where we gave up over 60 points. That was our barometer this season. If we gave up 60 points, we weren't going to win.

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

Copper is often perceived to be the barometer for market conditions and therefore a significant fall in copper prices could remove speculative support from other metals.

Ever since Tiananmen, of course, the U.S. has used human rights both as a barometer and as a weapon against China,

The transaction-capture piece is important, but what companies really want to get to is this information system that gives them a good barometer of where their business is at any point in time.

The search traffic that is generated for cars unveiled at the various auto shows is a good barometer of how well the car was received by consumers. It's too early to see how well the searches will translate into sales, but new introductions like the Toyota FJ Cruiser and Saturn Sky have already generated a significant number of consumer email leads to dealers.

The statistics will tell you that: They scored more points. That's usually a pretty good barometer for the effect that the rule changes had on the game for that year. The numbers, in this case, don't lie.

The software license revenue is widely viewed as a healthy barometer of their business. I think most of us were looking for growth in the 12- to 15-percent range, and we got 9 percent.

I've always enjoyed it as a football fan. But as a market analyst, I always turn to our January barometer .

Rankings really mean nothing at this point. It's going to be a good barometer of where we are early in the season.

This clearly shows that relying on the household survey's employment measure as a barometer of labor market conditions is not only risky, but also an incorrect assumption,

They serve as a barometer to let us know what issues are out there.

A march is not a movement. It's a barometer for the passion. The community needs mobilization. We're in it for the long haul. If we really want successful integration, we have to do much more than march.

This meet has some of the top teams in the state and six teams we'll see come the sectional. This was a good barometer as to where we are at this time of the season.

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.

It's a good barometer of where we are as a team.

It's a real good marriage between these two teams to be able to go head-to-head the first race of the year. It's a barometer for us to find out where we're at, and we're a little bit better than what we thought we would be. I'm ecstatic. To me it's a win.

It's throwing darts at the president, and the president has a pretty thick hide on these matters. Look at who's working for Arnold these days; they have a pretty good barometer on how far you can push the president.

Consumers are wearing this year what they wore last year. We're already seeing a slowdown in apparel and accessories and that's a pretty bad barometer going into the winter season.

Nokia is the barometer for the whole telecommunications industry. If there is nervousness there, then alarm bells start ringing throughout the business.

It was good to see him relax a little bit and get going. Obviously, spring training is not the best barometer for how you base these guys but, you know, he was 0-for-20 or whatever and he had a couple knocks so that's why you don't put a lot of emphasis on games like this because you can turn it around in one day.

Their goal is to be the No. 1 team in the country in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense. We took those two categories as a barometer to measure us against other teams for what we were doing.

Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds.

He's the barometer for their team. He is the heart and soul of their team. He can play three positions (shooting guard and both forward spots), and he works so hard. He is kind of like their Ben. Ben is our energy guy, and Shane is theirs.

I cannot say for sure if we will reach agreement on a common paper after the recess, and I also want to stress the ability to issue a joint paper is not the barometer of success of these talks.

I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

The greatest thing is, it gives you a barometer of where your season will shake out. That first week will show you where you stand . . . We always love playing in the Showdown.

The Dow is more a barometer of the economy and not so much the stock market. The photography sector isn't all that crucial to the economy.

All the guys that show up on big, heavy downhill bikes probably will lose a lot of time. Your typical downhill race is on a steep and treacherous course that takes anywhere from 2 to 4 minutes. Super Downhill is a lot more fitness-based. These races are 10 to 25 minutes long. Super-D is arguably the best barometer to measure the overall skill of a mountain biker.

The lodging barometer is just a forecast, but it's significant that we do it the same way every year. When you look at the graph, you can see the difference between this winter and the last couple of winters.

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.