Quotes About Measurement

We were not told what the device measured or why we should be afraid should it glow red. After the first few hours, I had grown so used to it that I hadn't looked at it again. We had been forbidden watches and compasses.

you change people's behavior by having them set some specific, measurable goals, reminding them of what they have committed to do, measuring their activities and providing frequent feedback, and providing positive reinforcement for progress. Effective

the more objectively learning is measured, the less likely it is to be related to the evaluations.

prioritizing the wrong outcomes: making participants feel good and giving them a good time. Simply stated, measuring entertainment value produces great entertainment, not change; measuring the wrong things crowds out assessing other, more relevant indicators

Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as we weep. But time is measured only unto man, says Alma (see Alma 40:8), and God has a very good memory.

You are quite . . . long," she said. "Have you ever measured it?" A glint flashed in Cameron's eyes. "No." "I must fetch a tape measure then." Cameron seized her wrist in an impossibly strong grip. "You are not going anywhere or fetching anything. Not now.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so.

The fact that so many thoughts could have gone through my head in 3.36 seconds is testament to the infinitude of an individual consciousness. There is no end to it, no way to measure it. Consciousness is like the cosmos multiplied by the number of people alive in the world (assuming that consciousness dies when we do, and it may not) because each of our minds is a cosmos of its own: unknowable, even to ourselves.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so. They are like whodunits after you know who did it. Does anyone reread a murder mystery? Whereas the cosmos has been mysterious to humans since long before we knew anything about astronomy or space—and, now that we do, is only more so.

Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious;

because at that point, the point at which my acceleration began to reverse, time started running together—there was no more arc of ascension by which to measure it.

After six months of Premarin, I had another round of levels taken. I was found to have 59 nanograms of estrogen in my system. The average for an adult male is 6. The mean for females is 26.

Because in this house there's no such thing as being sick unless you can measure it with a thermometer under the tongue.

Heathcliff measured the height and breadth of the speaker with an eye full of derision.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. 

one centimeter can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

Mit genau einem Meter Körpergröße lag Holly nur einen Zentimeter unter dem Elfendurchschnitt, aber ein Zentimeter kann verdammt viel ausmachen, wenn er einem fehlt.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Ból jest po prostu pytaniem, ktore stawiam samemu sobie, ?eby zmierzy? siÅ'Ä™ swojego pragnienia: jeÅ›li cierpienie mnie powstrzymuje, oznacza to, ?e wÅ'aÅ›ciwie wcale nie zale?y mi na po??danej rzeczy. Gdy jednak okazuje siÄ™ ono jedynie drobnÄ… przeszkodÄ…, wiem, ?e moje pragnienie jest silne, gÅ'Ä™bokie. Ból jest poniekÄ…d barometrem moich chÄ™ci.

Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

The world is not determined by initial conditions, once and for all. Every event of measurement is potentially creative and may open new possibilities.

Moreover, it seems absurd that an epiphenomenon of matter can affect matter: If consciousness is an epiphenomenon, how can it collapse the spread-out wave of a quantum object to a localized particle when it takes a quantum measurement?

Coolidge weighed only 119.5 pounds, below the class average, despite a height that was slightly more than average, 68.9 inches.

Yepsen (n.) The amount that can be held in two hands cupped together; also, the two cupped hands themselves. A measurement that has never really caught on like the teaspoon, the yepsen also falls firmly within the category of things for which you never thought there was a word—at least, not until some interfering busybody like me came along and told you what it was. Yesterneve