Third Metric Quotes

#1. And when we're living a life of perpetual time famine, we rob ourselves of our ability to experience another key element of the Third Metric: wonder, our sense of delight in the mysteries of the universe, as well as the everyday occurrences and small miracles that fill our lives.

Arianna Huffington

#2. At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.

Arianna Huffington

#3. Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one ... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

Erin McKean

#4. With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#5. During the meeting in Delhi with Dirac on 12 January 1955, Nehru asked him if he had any recommendations for the future of the new republic of India. After his usual reflective pause, Dirac replied: 'A common language, preferably English. Peace with Pakistan. The metric system.

Graham Farmelo

#6. Your potential, the absolute best you're capable of - that's the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.

Ryan Holiday

#7. The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

Eric Hobsbawm

#8. A metric fuckton of dumb so epically mind-destroyingly beyond a bad idea that there's not a chance they would go there.

Andrea K. Host

#9. Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis ... This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

Adrian Davis

#10. Money is just like the metric system:
you work more, you earn more
and there's always an extra zero to be added.
It's only a zero, though.

Luca Pesaro

#11. Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?"
"Evil's afoot."
"Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

#13. Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

Lincoln Chafee

#14. Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

Dave Barry

#15. You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

Bill Gates

#16. The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Keith Rabois

#17. I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Patton Oswalt

#18. in the future, the defining metric for organizations won't be ROI (Return on Investment), but ROL (Return on Learning).

Salim Ismail

#19. If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

Judith Stone

#20. Both space and time are metrically amorphous, i.e. they do not have - despite how strongly we believe so - an inherent metric which would allow us to measure them without any definitions. In this sense, thus, neither space nor time is absolute.

Felix Alba-Juez

#21. Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

Jim Butcher

#22. The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.

Michael Dickinson

#23. A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

Noah Kagan

#24. You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?'
'Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. Any metric that gets you thinking too near-term

Dusty Schmidt

#26. Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Clayton Christensen

#27. Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.

Simon Sinek

#28. The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a bag from the food court. Damn it.

Ilona Andrews

#29. G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#30. Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven.

Ryan Holiday

#31. 'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work.

Jerry Leiber

#32. It was a harbinger of the metric system.

Imraan Coovadia

#33. The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Naveen Jain

#34. Compassion has more to do with the attitude we bring to our encounters with other people than with any quantifiable metric of giving.

Sharon Salzberg