Quotes About Measurement

Basis points," or "bp," represent one hundredth of a percent, in reference to the yield, or cost of borrowing. "Area" is a term that simply means "plus or minus"; sometimes it is quantified and sometimes it is left intentionally undefined. This

Precisely because [historians'] detachment from and elevation above the landscape of the past, historians are able to manipulate time and space in ways they never could manage as normal people. They can compress these dimensions, expand them, compare them, measure them, and even transcend them, almost as poets, playwrights, novelists, and film-makers do. Historians have always been, in this sense, abstractionists: the literal representation of reality is not their task.

If you could fold a piece of paper 51 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.

If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a, its volume is pi*z*z*a.

It takes between 70,000 and 150,000 crocuses to make 2 pounds of saffron.

Pourchot, after breakfast, goes off to measure the largest of the spruce near the campsite. He finds a tree twenty-two inches in diameter, breast high. ...Pourchot says he will write in his report that there is one tree of such girth. 'Otherwise, the Forest Service might think there's timber here.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

One of the things that Ive always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

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?

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.

When people keep on asking me how much you love me I say if I could measure it, it won't be called love.

Classroom is just a place to examine and to identify your classroom performance, not your life's success.

100. It often happens that we count our days, as if the act of measurement made us some kind of promise. But really this is like hoisting a harness onto an invisible horse. "There is simply no way that a year from now you're going to feel the way you feel today," a different therapist said to me last year at this time. But though I have learned to act as if I feel differently, the truth is that my feelings haven't really changed.

Toxicity is now a question of degree, of acceptable parts per unit.

I didn't think they came any bigger than Hudson who was close to this size but not quite as big.

Like Marie, we can erroneously believe that our desires and fervor are the measure of our love for God; this is an example of judging our spiritual life with an emotional yardstick. Thérèse tells us that the opposite is true, namely, that our love for God is proved when we act in a loving manner without the support of affect.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Upon her Center pois'd, when on a day   (For Time, though in Eternitie, appli'd   To motion, measures all things durable   By present, past, and future) on such

First goddamn chicken we've had to count, and I'm counting the sonofabitch