Quotes About Time Measurement

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. For reason's measurements, which attain unto temporal things, do not attain unto things that are free from time-just as hearing does not attain unto whatever is not-audible, even though these things exist and are unattainable by hearing.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#4. Time is a measurement of our past, present and future. Do you value your time or do you waste it.

Vicki Salter

#5. When forever becomes a place ... when forever ceases to be just a word ... when it ceases to be just a measurement of time ... but instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts ... that is a reflection of true love.

Steve Maraboli

#6. The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. The lessons in measurement of cloacal forces. Time as a flow of sewage. The excrement of space, scatology of creation. The voiding of the self. The whole filthy integration of things and the nocturnal product . . . drowning in the pools of night.

Thomas Ligotti

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

Antiphon

#11. Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Amy Neftzger

#12. Judging others is just wasting your time,
giving your advice to men who don't pay.

Toba Beta

#13. IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible.

Pearl Zhu

#14. 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

#15. Time therefore is the measurement of life

Sunday Adelaja

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#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. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Sarah Manguso

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#29. 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

#30. Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.

Ashly Lorenzana

#31. 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

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

Carol Burnett

#33. 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

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

Gerald M. Givens

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

Michael Dolan

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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