Top 100 Measurable Quotes
#1. Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield measurable enhancements of material well-being - for those who create and master them, at least. Now
Marilynne Robinson
#2. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.
Michael Chabon
#3. We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
Seth Godin
#4. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.
William Deresiewicz
#5. Whoever said death couldn't be measured was wrong. Death was a football field. Death was a sprint. Death was measurable distance I wasn't fast enough to reach.
M.R. Merrick
#6. The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties - for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.
Alan W. Watts
#7. Strong processes with measurable outcomes eliminate bureaucracy and expose underperformers.
John Rossman
#8. Climate change is a very unusual ethical challenge because it's so completely measurable ... one of the reasons people should take action is because they have a responsibility for their emissions ... therefore what somebody else does is really irrelevant
George C. Marshall
#9. Because Nature always balances her books, the Sun lost some velocity in the transaction; but the effect would not be measurable for a few thousand years.
Arthur C. Clarke
#10. The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
Charles J. Givens
#11. Comforting assurance cannot be felt if the distance is measurable" - Wheels of Wish
Bibhu Datta Rout
#12. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.
Peter Cundill
#13. Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
Andy Stanley
#14. We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu
#15. The more you talk to cats ... the smarter they become. An occasional 'nice kitty' will have no measurable effect; intelligent conversation is required.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#16. Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know what a rose is, and pruning will help you get one of true beauty.
Henry Cloud
#17. Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it.
Malcolm X
#18. Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
William Law
#19. This society conditions the mind to a particular pattern of thought, the pattern of self-improvement, self-adjustment, self-sacrifice, and only those who are capable of breaking away from all conditioning can discover that which is not measurable by the mind.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#20. 'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
Victoria Strauss
#21. Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.
Galileo Galilei
#22. Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, and Timely
Chip Heath
#23. Faith is measurable. It builds as you think about and meditate on a spiritual truth. There are natural laws, like gravity, and there are spiritual laws, like this one. You can have what you say if you believe that you have it before you actually see that
Gena Showalter
#25. There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#26. You can put your trust in something that's obvious, that's measurable or predictable - but that's not faith. Nor is believing in something that gives you no pause for doubt, no reason or desire to question. Faith is something more than that. By definition, it cannot have proof as its foundation.
James Islington
#27. As soon as you introduce the mechanical clock, you get a radically different view of time. Suddenly, it's not a flow; it's a series of discreet, precisely measurable units, seconds, minutes, hours, and so forth.
Nicholas G. Carr
#28. Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.
Bertrand Russell
#29. demonstrated that, in general, students seem to learn better when information is presented in particular ways and at a certain pace. Proper nutrition does have a measurable impact on memory and learning, and physical activity does enhance learning.
Louis Cozolino
#30. I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
Donald Norman
#31. The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.
Matt McGorry
#32. A GOAL THAT IS NOT MEASURABLE IS JUST WISHFUL THINKING.
Jack Canfield
#33. Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.
Joyce Meyer
#34. Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.
Erik Qualman
#35. making sure that your goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time bound.
Allison Perry
#36. Competencies, when measurable through behaviors or work outputs, become a foundation for planning for talent, building talent, and acquiring talent. Although
William J. Rothwell
#37. Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.
Rene Dubos
#38. I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster.
Jeffrey Lewis
#39. In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel
#40. As you proceed through your study of physics, you will find that every one of the measurable quantities that is discussed can be specified in terms of only four basic dimensions: mass, length, time, and electric charge. In this chapter, we will begin a study of the first three of these.
Karl F. Kuhn
#41. We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
Alfie Kohn
#42. To my knowledge, not a single scientist at the Hurricane Research Division, the National Hurricane Center, or the Joint Typhoon Warning Center believes ... that there is any measurable impact on hurricane numbers or activity from global warming.
Stanley B. Goldenberg
#43. Your goal must be divided into smallest measurable and visible period of time- a day, so you know exactly what to do everyday
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Roger Lowenstein
#45. Strength isn't measurable, it's inside of each of us and we need to find it when we feel weak.
Corinne Michaels
#46. No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
Irving Howe
#48. Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives ... Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.
Robert D. Putnam
#49. Men who leave their mark on the world are very often those who, being gifted and full of nervous power, are at the same time haunted and driven by a dominant idea, and are therefore within a measurable distance of insanity.
Francis Galton
#50. It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
Timothy Ferriss
#51. Expatriation, like love, is not only a condition that devastates and reconfigures the self; it is, like love, a trope, a figure with which we try to explain, try to narrate profound psychological disruptions in terms of very measurable entities: a person, a place, an event, a moment, etc.
Andre Aciman
#52. The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.
Sha Zukang
#53. Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord's discipline and instruction.
Donald S. Whitney
#54. The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.
Alberto Villoldo
#55. People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.
Anais Nin
#56. Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.
Don DeLillo
#57. I'm addicted to change and therefore I get bored easily. Results have always motivated me, which has led me to developing ways to measure things that historically have not been measurable.
Amy Jo Martin
#58. Science had given mankind many gifts, and she valued it. But the one important thing it had taken away was the value of subjective, personal experience. That had been replaced with the idea that only measurable and testable concepts had value. But humans didn't work that way ...
James S.A. Corey
#59. It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
Dirk Benedict
#60. Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
Galileo Galilei
#62. Though not fearful of measurable dangers, she feared the unknown.
Thomas Hardy
#63. That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow
#64. Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.
Jacques Maritain
#65. The important thing to understand is that the case for pollution control isn't based on some kind of aesthetic distaste for industrial society. Pollution does real, measurable damage, especially to human health.
Paul Krugman
#66. We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.
H. H. Asquith
#67. In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us
not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.
John Irving
#68. Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition.
Joe Kraus
#69. I EXPECT MEASURABLE PROGRESS IN A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME.
Eddie L. Long
#70. Stress is not a state of mind ... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#71. Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not ... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
Eric Bana
#72. I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.
Mick Fleetwood
#73. They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.
James Young
#74. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.
Stephen Jay Gould
#75. The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ... and you've got it made.
Og Mandino
#76. The capability definition is: "the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.
Pearl Zhu
#77. We live in a world of evaluations, assessments, and measurements, but Jesus turns his gaze deeper because he knows that what is measurable can be faked.
Scot McKnight
#78. Everything measurable passes, everything that can be counted has an end. Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of water, and the heart in its tears.
Gustave Flaubert
#79. True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
Mike Hernacki
#80. This was the first time anyone suggested the genome was an information store measurable in bits. Shannon's guess was conservative, by at least four orders of magnitude.
James Gleick
#81. Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.
Bharat Shah
#82. An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.
Eric Maisel
#83. faith is not a static, theoretical concept, but rather is central to one's life and is thus developed carefully and allowed to flourish in all areas of life, it becomes measurable in its effects.
Thomas E. Woodward
#84. The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end ... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#85. Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
Madeleine L'Engle
#86. Love is beyond reason. Love is not measurable in words. Love cannot be partial; it cannot have owners. Love is essentially beyond definition or concept.
Mabel Iam
#87. The physicist takes water, abstracts its quantitatively measurable aspects, reaches results about these aspects, and ignores the rest.
Fulton J. Sheen
#88. We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!
William T. Vollmann
#89. When horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.
Virginia Axline
#90. Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
Walter Wangerin
#91. Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
Benjamin Zander
#92. But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#93. Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
Joe Haldeman
#94. Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day
Sunday Adelaja
#95. It's a long journey - the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two steps forward, there is one step back. Don't let that discourage you, because you can play a big part in ensuring that measurable change takes place in the coming decade.
Jack Norris
#96. you execute with comfortable confidence and synchrony, and you leave with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, regardless of the measurable outcome.
Amy Cuddy
#97. That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford
#98. Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Jim Rohn
#99. But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
Gabriel Marcel
#100. I now have of a life that stretches beyond the limits of measurable time.
David Malouf
