Quotes About Measurement

sixty miles north of Bluestem, as the crow flies, or eighty miles, if the crow were driving a pickup.

Mr. Hogan is not tall himself, at five feet ten inches

Pacific time was two hours ahead of Central time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

Our success as a nation is not measured by how many years we have governed or how many wars we have won. It is measured by the quality of life which we have created for the society that our ideals were founded upon.

I believe success shouldn't be measured at the end of the day, but instead at the end of one's life.

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as large as it needs to be?

Half the people you know are below average.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons

Remedies and Solutions are different; Remedies are the measurement or ways for solving the problem. Solutions are solving the problems, without any query in later stage. Solutions can be remedy, but remedy cannot.

Distances are only the relation of space to time and vary with that relation. We express the difficulty that we have in getting to a place in a system of miles or kilometres which becomes false as soon as that difficulty decreases.

Pero el despertador, privado de cuerda durante tantos días, ya no señala el tiempo, señala la eternidad.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8msecsec.

Of course, physics prevents us from dividing things beyond a certain limit, determined by what is called the Planck constant. This is because, according to physicists, it is actually impossible to measure a distance smaller than 10-34m without creating a black hole that would swallow up the measuring device.

Knowing the hard limits to our cognitive capacity and the huge cost of working long hours should not be an intractable problem to address. We have a century of data and a roll call of the disastrous consequences that follow those who insist that heroic hours are a proof of commitment to an employer. Companies that measure work by hours could make themselves smarter by the simple act of measuring contribution by output and rewarding those who go home.

Larger than a pea? Oh, it most certainly was.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.