Quotes About Measurement

Anyone measuring his mind against an external reality has to fall back on an axiom of faith.

Gerçek ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. birimi insand?r.

Yaz bakal?m: Gerçek, ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. "Birimi var m? Hikmet Amca?" "Birimi insand?r.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities.

Clear measurement standards, high-grade operations, specialized products, and more training for entrepreneurs can make impact investing a more influential practice.

the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

Look at God's incredible waste of His saints, according to the world's judgment. God seems to plant His saints in the most useless places. And then we say, "God intends for me to be here because I am so useful to Him." Yet Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.

My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.

But many educated Americans who rise to positions of responsibility believe they must operate almost exclusively on the basis of what can be observed and measured because they are educated in a system that mistakenly defines reality that way. And yet, everything human is driven by the invisible powers of the heart.

The Human Resources Scorecard: Measuring the Return on Investment (ButterworthHeinemann, 2001),

If God has given all things their significance, and defined their bounds according to time, space, power, and number, and if He has appointed certain measurements to regulate things and times, biblical numbers must be symbolical, and be worthy of our study; and if a fit subject for study, the laws by which this symbolism of numbers is controlled, require to be ascertained.

pins and firkins and hogsheads, faucets, spiles and spigots not to mention the kilderkin, tierce and puncheon.

I weigh more than a mountain but less than a feather.

I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're going to keep. Or some prize potato you're hoping will win a prize at the county fair.

Six feet six inches. Dead even.

Paddy is untall. Paddy hates the term "short" with a passion most folks reserve for the tax man. His distaste for the tax man exceeds known measurement.

Weigh all your ingredients in grams to achieve greater consistency with your baking.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Because it is harder to measure smaller things by relating their positions and momenta to those of other known objects, uncertainty is much greater at the atomic level than at the astronomical level. Therefore, quantum uncertainty is not a fundamental feature of nature but the result of human inability to measure everything in the universe with absolute precision. (Eddington)

NICE (2003) has recommended the Mini Mental State Examination,

non numerantur sed ponderantur (They are not counted but weighed)

Yes. It was Tatiana, not specter but matter. She was measurable. His little Newton had mass and occupied space. A small finite matter in infinite space. That is what math gave him—principles of design that tied together the boundless universe. That is why he measured her. Because she was order.

When we measure corporate performances, we don't include our impacts on nature and what our business costs society. That has to stop.