Quotes About Measurement

I have never had an interest in opinion polls. They are merely an indicator, that's all.

My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cream, but whenever I gain three or four pounds, that sets off a red alarm.

Football is a contact sport and sometimes is difficult to measure that.

Does it make a difference if I score 8000 or 10,000 runs in Test cricket? Not in anybody's life.

That inefficiency is masked because growth and progress are measured in money, and money does not give us information about ecological systems, it only gives information about financial systems.

Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

I don't even know how tall I am. I'm hoping 6-4. I'm 6-4, 6-5 on a good day.

If Barbie was a real person, she'd be, like, 10 feet tall in order for her legs to be proportionate to her torso.

I'm 5 feet tall, and that's on a good day.

I'm not seven foot, I'm about 6'9', 6'10', around that area. It's fine, I really don't care if I'm not as tall as everyone says I am. I'm doing fine.

I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

I'm 5ft 7in tall and a size six to eight on top and eight to ten on the bottom. Consequently, I get a lot of my clothes altered to fit, as I am always between sizes.

I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought.

I'm a quarter of an inch taller than Jonathan at 6-foot-4 1/2.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

I don't know if there's ever a point where you go, 'Oh, I'm successful now. Look at all this great stuff I've done,' because I don't think it can be tangible in that way.

a curious result kept turning up: If the same group of people took two different mental tests, anyone who did well (or poorly) on one test tended to do similarly well (or poorly) on the other. In statistical terms, the scores on the two tests were positively correlated.

By 1908, the concept of mental level (later called mental age) had been developed, followed in a few years by a slightly more sophisticated concept, the intelligence quotient.

There are reasons, increasing in number and quality, to believe that the masses of ordinary galaxies may have been underestimated by a factor of 10 or more.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

There are] code words used today to measure the 'authenticity' of relationships or other persons. We speak of whether we can personally 'relate' to events or other persons, and whether in the relationship itself people are 'open' to one another. The first is a cover word for measuring the other in terms of a mirror of self-concern, and the second is a cover for measuring social interaction in terms of the market exchange of confession.

We carve up the world and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces, decibels. All these things and what to do with them. We carve up the world all the time.

We carve up the world/and crown it with numbers—lumens, ounces,/decibels. All these things and what to do with them.