Quantified Self Quotes

#1. When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay. The

Christian Rudder

#2. Fogg's most salient quality as an employee was his ability to be present while she fetched a sandwich. Beyond this, he contributed little that could be quantified.

Tom Rachman

#3. Our second big mistake - we thought that risk could be quantified. Our third big mistake - Alan Greenspan. The

Jade Chang

#4. Strategic management is not a box of tricks or a bundle of techniques. It is analytical thinking and commitment of resources to action. But quantification alone is not planning. Some of the most important issues in strategic management cannot be quantified at all.

Peter Drucker

#5. Train the ears to hear more.
Train the eyes to see more.
Train the hands to do more.
Train the feet to accomplish more.
Train the mind to think more.
Train the heart to feel more.
Train the soul to love more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. But she would never get there, no matter how wide she stretched her arms. The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

Randy Gage

#8. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.

Katie Graykowski

#9. Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

J.G. Ballard

#10. Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models yawning to be optimized by a mindset that is educated in a data-driven methodology.

Keith Holdaway

#11. Time is just quantified eternity.

Deepak Chopra

#12. In three hundred feet, turn right, Darth Vader said. The Darth Vader. I felt like we were friends now. Like I could tell him anything.

Darynda Jones

#13. What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.

Nina LaCour

#14. I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

Rachel Stevens

#15. What I feel for you...it can be neither quantified nor defined. It is so profound, so revolutionary, that no methods to date are equipped to even measure it. A new word should be imagined just to express the depth and scope of it, because 'love' does not even come close.

Joanna Shupe

#16. The image that stands before you whilst standing in front of the mirror is unique therefore what you are, who you are and what you stand for cannot be quantified nor measured in simple terms your beyond valuable

Lebogang Lynx Bopape

#17. It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

Rita Dove

#18. Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

J.G. Ballard

#19. We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.

Marcia Willett

#20. In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

Robert Sternberg

#21. How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

Paul Monette

#22. When I run on the beach, it's always in slow motion. That's just how I roll.

Amber Heard

#23. His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five other things it automagically quantified and uploaded and shared. Digitally, he would actually appear dead.

Warren Ellis

#24. The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.

Aaron Patzer

#25. How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

Vanna Bonta

#26. After Freud's exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised

J.G. Ballard

#27. You punish liars? In my world, we elect them to public office.

Bryan Davis

#28. Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq - that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

Russell Brand

#29. All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

Robert Sternberg

#30. I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

Leah Remini

#31. The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in the Tao Te Ching's universe and then ten thousand more.

Cheryl Strayed

#32. I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

Craig Venter

#33. I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

George W. Bush

#34. The death of our self-worth begins at its appraisal, for such an action erroneously implies that our worth can be quantified.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#35. Make the decision to not let what hurt you the most hurt you anymore.

Auliq Ice

#36. No, what I faced almost seemed worse: a nothingness that could be neither quantified nor identified. A sadness I could not trace back to one single thing, but a series of choices. A life that had everything, but nothing.

Nina G. Jones

#37. When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress.

Nora Ephron

#38. Good things that cannot be calculated or quantified are set in motion in your life and in your finances when you give.

Dave Ramsey

#39. Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.

Polly Toynbee

#40. We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#41. Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Christopher Lasch