Caliber Quotes

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You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Where there is no style, there is in effect no point of view. There is, essentially, no anger, no conviction, no self. Style is opinion, hung washing, the caliber of a bullet, teething beads.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

You can't measure dreams when you're a dreamer, because most often the caliber is unattainable.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.

It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

The fact Jeff Teague has never been an All-Star is puzzling to me because he's certainly an All-Star-caliber player.

Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.

Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say that it's not all about winning.

Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

That's like asking you to pick your favorite child... I do however, think Bird on a Wire was one of my finest works. Oscar caliber.

I've been really lucky as far as the caliber of musicians I've been able to work with each time.

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.

The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.

There are always ups and downs when you lose a player the caliber of Matt Ryan.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

I've never met anyone who has convinced me to say, "No, I'm not gonna take the next Spielberg film, I think I'll stay here and have a baby." I've never met anyone of that caliber.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.

Believe in yourself. Know you have what it takes, to make excellence a good habit. Focus on doing excellent work and use discipline to make it happen.

When you step up to being excellent, use hard work and determination as the powerful force they are. By also being devoted and persistent, over time it will reward you with sparkling success.