Quotes About Measurement

Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.

she had violated one of the basic tenets of any competent cook: she had purchased a turkey without comparing its size to the size of her oven.

Time was a peculiarly elastic measurement. It was an empty space, given meaning only by what it contained, and afterwards distorted in memory.

A milli-Helen is enough beauty to launch exactly one ship

If your feet are in two buckets and the average temperature of the water is 90 degrees, you're probably fine—unless one bucket is at 35 and the other is at 145 degrees. On average, you're fine. Based on variation, though, you're miserable.

How many people would reach out and wonder (or complain) if you didn't send out that next email blast? That's a metric worth measuring and increasing.

We hire for perfect, we manage for perfect, we measure for perfect, and we reward for perfect. So why are we surprised that people spend their precious minutes of self-directed, focused work time trying to achieve perfect? The problem is simple: Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. Rough

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.

workers into machines. If we can measure it, we can do it faster. If we can put it in a manual, we can outsource it. If we can outsource it, we can get it cheaper.

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costs And benefits of loving those who don't love Strangers. After all, I'm often the odd one— The strangest stranger—in any field or room. He was weird will be carved into my tomb.

I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.

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

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.

You realize how many times you have to wet your thumb when you're counting out a million?" "You're shitting me. They must have a machine or something." "Right. A machine that wets their thumbs.

It is because the ancients made astronomical calculations in base 60 that we still use this system for measuring time, dividing an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. In its path through the heavens, the sun takes roughly 360 days (actually 365.242199) to describe a complete circle, so it seems that the Babylonians divided a complete circle into 360 degrees (°).

For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.