Quotes About Measurement

#1. Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of these standards, Bill Clinton has considerably high marks. The sole exception is on protecting taxes, which is initially his attack.

Mark Shields

#2. No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

Charles Babbage

#3. The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.

Pearl Zhu

#4. I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

Sarah Manguso

#5. To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Edouard Vuillard

#6. Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations.

David H. Hubel

#7. Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
[Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died]

Johannes Kepler

#9. In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Willis Lamb

#10. It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

Arthur David Ritchie

#11. What dreams you white-frocked kiddies have in the sanctified cloister of your laboratories. You can make yourself believe anything after a while. As long as you can make up a measurement for it.

Richard Matheson

#12. Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Jay Griffiths

#13. Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's ... before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

Roy Spencer

#14. Impressive technological development makes us capable of measuring almost everything, but measurement error problems still remain.

Eraldo Banovac

#15. Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what they are and not for what we would like them to be.

Kevin Michel

#16. However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.

Jim Al-Khalili

#17. If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

Peter Drucker

#18. Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#19. The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l;
the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent
the rich visual world of experience and
measurement on mere flatland?

Edward Tufte

#20. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Benjamin Zander

#21. If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it's a recipe for disaster.

Pearl Zhu

#22. I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

John Muir

#23. The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

Steve Lohr

#24. A woman's magnetism is not a body measurement.

Riley Murphy

#25. No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Walther Nernst

#26. The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

#27. Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.

Elena Ferrante

#28. Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

#29. God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

Marcus Garvey

#30. The women I'm attracted to have to know their worth. That measurement can only be weighed from the inside, and when that's taken into account and she truly appreciates it? Everything on the outside of her becomes an asset.

Riley Murphy

#31. There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Christopher Hitchens

#32. A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition ... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Willis Lamb

#33. An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Max Planck

#34. Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.

Pearl Zhu

#35. Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

Suze Orman

#36. Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

Michael Beckwith

#37. The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.

Pearl Zhu

#38. Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second.

Cassandra Clare

#39. The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs," he said. "If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.

Glenn Greenwald

#40. Whatever the measurement system is, it needs to be consistent, repeatable and as unbiased as possible.

Pearl Zhu

#41. I will prove to you that forever is not just a word, not just a measurement of unending time, but that forever is a place where I will treasure your heart.

Mia Sheridan

#42. A world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Abraham Verghese

#43. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Lord Kelvin

#44. I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

Penelope Wilton

#45. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

#46. In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

Ben Bernanke

#47. Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.

Pearl Zhu

#48. Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Robert D. Hare

#49. Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate.

Leila Janah

#50. Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#51. I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

John Henry Carver

#52. A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Patrick Lencioni

#53. How far is that in regular measurements?" Percy asked. Frank rolled his eyes. "That is a regular measurement in Canada and the rest of the world. Only you Americans -

Rick Riordan

#54. The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'

Carol Burnett

#55. The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual.

Pearl Zhu

#56. One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Michael Crichton

#57. The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... in hallucinations and dreams.

Jeremy Narby

#58. A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

Dave Barry

#59. I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

Christie Hefner

#60. Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance

Frank Herbert

#61. For millenia, scientists always try to measure
the size of this vast universe. One way to know
that is first to find the smallest single thing that
constructs this universe. When they get it, the
real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.

Toba Beta

#62. People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

P. J. O'Rourke

#63. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

Fran Tarkenton

#64. I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

Tyler Cowen

#65. The measures themselves are easily distorted to suit reporting purposes.

John Seddon

#66. The overall organizational health needs to be measured via employee engagement, culture readiness, business agility, and customer-centricity, etc.

Pearl Zhu

#67. Education that gives priority to measurement rather than values, to efficiency rather than conscience, to information rather than ethics, provides no barrier to barbarity and violence. The Holocaust was perpetrated by a society of the most disciplined, highly educated people on earth.

Dee Hock

#68. The "self-driven" talent performance management is pursuing the digital way to run a purpose-driven organization.

Pearl Zhu

#69. From him [Wilard Bennett] I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known!
[While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.]

William M. Fowler

#70. It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.

Sigmund Freud

#71. Judgmental heart has lack of introspection.

Toba Beta

#72. That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

John Dos Passos

#73. Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.

Amber Naslund

#74. There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

John Hull

#75. All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

John Engler

#76. All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.

Louise Erdrich

#77. Whenever you can, count.

Francis Galton

#78. Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

Gerald M. Givens

#79. Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

George Washington

#80. In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.

Warren Buffett

#81. Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

Michael Dolan

#82. Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

Gregory Bateson

#83. One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.

John Hull

#84. The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

#85. 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

#86. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!

Israelmore Ayivor

#87. It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without highly competitive talent.

Pearl Zhu

#88. Strategic-operational KPIs alignment gives the organization a powerful tool to use when implementing change.

Pearl Zhu

#89. I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Howard Gardner

#90. A day is a day. It's just a measurement of time. Whether it's a good day or a bad day is up to you. It's all a matter of perception.

Donald L. Hicks

#91. If ever the amount of people getting struck by lightning increases dramatically, it will severely throw off the global measurement of probability.

Atticus

#92. Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.

H. James Harrington

#93. The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling.

Raul Ruiz

#94. Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Eben Pagan

#95. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Mark Twain

#96. Let's just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a moronic drinking game that later evolved into the imperial measurement system.

Sorin Suciu

#97. A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Erwin Schrodinger

#98. There was no pause, no pity, no peace, no interval of relenting rest, no measurement of time. Though days and nights circled as regularly as when time was young, and the evening and morning were the first day, other count of time there was none.

Charles Dickens

#99. many villagers still commonly use the unit of measurement dan, literally the amount of weight a grown man can carry over his shoulder.

Dan Washburn

#100. It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

Daniel Kahneman