Quotes About Measurement

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify.

My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

I don't give my weight. I weigh a hundred and plenty.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

The pollen count, now that's a difficult job. Especially if you've got hay fever.

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

I went into a butchers and I said, 'I'll have a pound of sausages. 'He said, 'I'm very sorry, sir, we only serve kilos in here. 'I said, 'Okay then I'll have a pound of kilos.'

I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

What gets measured, gets done. And what gets recognized gets done again, and even better.

What counts can't always be counted; what can be counted doesn't always count.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.