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You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature.

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.

I have invented the Thermometer style.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

Weather systems are natural heat engines, and like all other heat engines, both natural and artificial, they are driven not by temperature per se, but by differences in temperature between one location and another.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.