Top 100 Quotes About Measurement
#1. I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.
Sarah Manguso
#2. The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.
Peter Drucker
#3. In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.
Hisham Matar
#4. Each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
David Levithan
#5. Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
Robert D. Hare
#6. elusive nature of knowledge-based work requires different measurement and control methods compared to creating tangible deliverables from physical materials.
Terry Doerscher
#7. Religion is belief in someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience. Atheism is no experience only measurement.
Deepak Chopra
#8. The particles that are the very building blocks of all things, are in all possible locations until observation/measurement causes them to choose a specific position.
Kevin Michel
#9. Time is a measurement of our past, present and future. Do you value your time or do you waste it.
Vicki Salter
#10. It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.
Tom Coburn
#11. The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."
John F. Kerry
#12. Keep in mind, measurement is not just numbers, but stories.
Pearl Zhu
#13. True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#15. In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.
Eli Broad
#16. Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.
Aditi Shankardass
#17. He is someone who lives in the moment, with no affection for the past. He savours every instant of the present as if it were still the best and only time, with no comparisons, no measurement.
Kim Thuy
#18. I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.
Corey Haim
#19. A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.
Medard Boss
#20. All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.
Amber Naslund
#21. I wish there was some personal marker of time, so we didn't have to rely upon days and weeks and months and years. Because each of us has our own unit of measurement, our own relativity. Spaces between loves. Spaces between destinations. Spaces between deaths.
Insightful, p.194
Andrea Cremer
#22. The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of agitated water with a yard stick tied to a rope and which is swaying in the wind.
Arpad Elo
#23. Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things.
Hilaire Belloc
#24. Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.
Rudolf Virchow
#25. Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important
Seth Godin
#26. The time is ripe for our measurement system to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people's well-being. And measures of well-being should be put in a context of sustainability.
Nic Marks
#27. Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.
Rick Scott
#28. The key measurement will not be how many people are watching the Univision network. But, believe me, I still think we are going to grow and are shooting for No. 1, and that spot is certainly on our radar. But engagement will be the focus and the main measure.
Randy Falco
#29. The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.
Nicholas Carr
#30. Because in the Renaissance, broadly integrative thought was at a premium; empirical method was in its infancy. Now, with the tools of measurement so highly refined, we produce lots of narrow specialists but fewer expansive thinkers." "Well,
Charles E. Gannon
#31. In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
Benjamin Zander
#32. Every man's measurement is determined by his responses when he is on his knees before God.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#33. I had loved studying the map because it was a printed explanation of where I had been placed on earth. It was a love song to location, a psalm of praise to both measurement and extent.
Pat Conroy
#36. Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.
Anne Perry
#37. four critical business issues: broken processes, islands of information, inaccurate measurement, and using yesterday's creative approach.
Andrew Frawley
#38. The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind.
"Ah," said Eric, "Good."
"No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement."
"Oh.
Terry Pratchett
#39. A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.
Franz Karl Achard
#40. That's what science is about: seeing the exact same things that other people do, finding the units of measurement with which to describe those things, communicating in the fewest and most precise words available. What could be saner - or more sociable - than that?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#41. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.
David Dreman
#42. Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called "measurement problem" of
Deepak Chopra
#43. Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.
William Forsyth Sharpe
#44. As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.
Micah Lexier
#45. Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.
Jay Griffiths
#46. The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
Werner Heisenberg
#47. Birthday should be considered as a unit of measurement to measure our present status toward success!
Mohith Agadi
#48. I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
Erwin Schrodinger
#49. But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job .
Val Logsdon Fitch
#50. In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure ... and forget that there is a difference.
Udny Yule
#51. My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tino Sehgal
#52. The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
#53. The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.
Alan Huffman
#54. Doesn't the seventeenth-century use of the measurement yard for penis strike you as a bit of an exaggeration, unless the yard then was not the yard now?
Siri Hustvedt
#55. drama is by its very nature alien to genuine polyphony; drama may be multi-leveled, but it cannot contain multiple worlds; it permits only one, and not several, systems of measurement. Secondly,
Mikhail Bakhtin
#56. the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound - it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave - pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale,
Bernie Krause
#57. It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
John Hutton
#58. Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
Malcolm McLaren
#59. The goal of measurement is to not only do things right but do the right things and continuously improve doing that.
Pearl Zhu
#60. Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West
Donika Kelly
#61. I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Bill Gates
#62. The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
Niels Bohr
#63. Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.
Brian Tracy
#66. Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.
Antiphon
#67. You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#69. Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.
Jim Trelease
#70. I want to see a New Story education, which is not only about intellectual knowledge - not only about measurement - not only about academic achievement. It is also about heart, feelings, emotions, relationship, love, compassion, generosity, beauty. All these values are part of the heart.
Satish Kumar
#71. One of the biggest pitfalls for performance measurement is to measure the "part" with ignorance of the "whole.
Pearl Zhu
#72. Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy
#73. The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws.
Experiment and Theory in Physics
Max Born
#74. What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#75. Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.
Damon Galgut
#76. Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Gerald Jampolsky
#77. The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.
Charles Francis Richter
#78. Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.
Adeo Ressi
#79. The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP.
Simon Kuznets
#80. I certainly do believe anyone engaged in the management of money should have a standard of measurement, and that both he and the party whose money is managed should have a clear understanding why it is the appropriate standard, what time period should be utilized, etc.
Warren Buffett
#82. Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#83. There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
Edwin Powell Hubble
#84. We have our own internal version of Klout. We do rate people in this way - their effectiveness on social media. Tying social into a performance measurement works. The productivity of a sales who has an effective social media presence is 3x an employee who is not active on the web.
Sandy Carter
#85. If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value
Douglas W. Hubbard
#86. The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
Victor Francis Hess
#87. Wealth is an inner feeling. More precisely, wealth is an outlook, an attitude, a belief. And the most obvious measurement of wealth is gratitude.
Bo Sanchez
#88. I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.
John Lanchester
#89. Fruitfulness may be a better measurement for success than productivity because it is based more in the evaluations of others as to the meaningful role we have played in their lives then in our own importance determined according to the amount of accomplishments we can list.
Karen Burton Mains
#90. The size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
Mark Twain
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.
Ben Bernanke
#96. I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
Penelope Wilton
#97. Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second.
Cassandra Clare
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
