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Quotes About Measurement

Our goal is to assist leaders and for-profit B2B organizations in implementing a culture of high proactive trustworthiness by assessing, capturing, measuring, and utilizing it's greatest asset; Relationship Capital (RC).
~ Robert Peters
For a macro cross-industry view, however, consider the robust methodology used in The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), developed by Claes Fornell in conjunction with the National Quality Research Center (NQRC), Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. ACSI measures consumer satisfaction with goods and services in the United States.
~ Robert Thompson
While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I
~ Robert Wachter
there is no guarantee that the time freed up by our newfound technological efficiencies will be made available for the human touch. A look at the modern history of industrial computerization would have one lay odds that this squishy stuff will be precisely what is sacrificed on the altar of productivity, particularly once every word, touch, and minute is measured, analyzed, and priced out.
~ Robert Wachter
Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
~ Robin Hobb
with grades, with scores. I always had to be the best in my class. It felt like the only way I could measure my success, my self-worth. If you knew the time I put into preparing for the MCAT you wouldn't believe it—it verged on OCD. It's that insane.
~ Robyn Carr
When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.
~ Louis Sachar
You are to dig one hole each day, including Saturdays and Sundays. Each hole must be five feet deep, and five feet across in every direction. Your shovel is your measuring stick. Breakfast is served at 4:30.
~ Louis Sachar
How much hair do you have?" Joe shrugged his shoulders. "A lot," he answered. "But how much, Joe?" asked Mrs. Jewls. "Enough to cover my head," Joe answered. "Joe, you are going to have to learn how to count
~ Louis Sachar
I love statistics because they place what happens to a scrap of humanity, like me, on a worldwide scale.
~ Louise Erdrich
He was always proud of the fact that he had an abnormally low pulse of fifty-two.
~ Ron Chernow
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
~ Ronald Reagan
Madame Curie se concentró en el estudio de la medición de las sustancias radiactivas, creó un servicio de autenticación de esas medidas y definió el patrón internacional del radio, algo esencial tanto para la industria como para las aplicaciones médicas.
~ Rosa Montero
College rankings, though, are very different. The rankings simply don't measure what people think they measure: the educational experience for an individual student. Doing that requires a personalized look at a college through the eyes of a potential student.
~ Sally P. Springer
the 2.5 billion seconds that make up the average human
~ Sam Harris
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
~ Terry Pratchett
I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.
~ Leslie Feinberg
It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.
~ George Eliot
Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears, ' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
~ Eric Edmeades
If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.
~ Strive Masiyiwa