Quotes About Measurement

Why do people always talk about how fast a car can get from naught to sixty? I mean, what's the big deal about sixty miles an hour? It's like people think aliens are going to land and only be able to do fifty-nine. They'll suck out our brains unless we can do naught to sixty in less than ten seconds.

Theater gives them what a computer takes away, what no classroom teacher can teach. They learn to work with other people. They learn patience and tolerance and how to be deferential to each other. They learn to be good citizens. It's unifying. It has an impact on kids that can't be quantified. Educators don't know how to measure it.

Vitruvius discovered that the length of a man's ear is one-third of the length of his face, and the length of a man's foot is one-sixth of his height. As a child, I was asked to measure the distance from the tip of my head to the floor and divide it by the distance from my belly button to the ground. The number I came up with is the same number that nearly everyone will. A ratio of 1.618.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

doña Venjamón, dama de puerta mayor, dos asientos en el tranvía, uno para cada nalga, y ocho varas y tercia por vestido.

Unconditional acceptance is especially important to children. If parents threaten to withdraw their love from a child when he fails to measure up, the child's natural playfulness will be gradually replaced by chronic anxiety.

So people take intelligence very seriously, because the mental ability we call by that name can be measured by tests; whereas few bother about how sensitive, altruistic, or helpful someone is, because as yet there is no good way to measure such qualities.

In the past few centuries economic rationality has een so successful that we have come to take for granted that the "bottom line" of any human effort is to be measured in dollars and cents. But an exclusively economic approach to life is profoundly irrational; the true bottom line consists in the quality and complexity of experience

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

The metric system ruined me.

Our humanity is not a standard by which we are to measure his. His humanity, true and unadulterated, is the standard by which we are to be measured.

The key to maximizing this perception is making sure you make lots of angry and tense phone calls while your clothes are being measured.

Gdje nam je dokaz, da naše ''ja'' traje, da smo ''mi'' još uvijek trajno i neprekidno ''mi'', gdje nam je zapravo mjera?

Greenland's coast is more than twenty-seven thousand miles long, a distance greater than the circumference of the earth at the equator.

Don't forget to weigh that Posho and beans again when you receive it, you know we don't trust our government

The spiritual cannot be measured like physical entities.

Time is still too complicated for us to comprehend and we cannot define it using our wristwatches, nor by using the big clocks on the wall.

late modernity has tried to squeeze more and more areas of human discourse into the first type of "truth," making a "fact" out of everything and thereby trying to put everything into the kind of box which can be weighed, measured, and verified as if it were an experiment in the hard sciences like chemistry, or even an equation in mathematics. But this attempt has overreached itself, not least in areas like history and sociology.

Lomborg and his followers make the philosophical error of thinking that things that can't be counted don't count.

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

For the record, the average penis is about 4 inches long when flaccid, 5.7 inches when erect. That's a bit bigger than the gorilla's 3-inch erection, but then there's the blue whale, the world's largest mammal, who has, yes, a 10-foot pole.)

And Bible reading is an important spiritual practice but I wonder if quantity is everything and I wonder how we might measure the Bible's effect in our lives. After all, even Ellen White warned that "there is much reading of the Bible that is without profit and in many cases a positive injury." 1

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We must keep in mind the story of the statistician who drowned while trying to wade across a river with an average depth of four feet.