Quotes About Measurement

Now numbers are the sole criterion; and numbers are certainly no proof of reason, justice or capacity.

All the values we try to formulate are relative to the living process in us and should be measured against it.

Different fields notwithstanding, since their early alliance positive psychologists and happiness economists have shared the conviction that happiness was not an ill-defined or speculative construct with more than fifty shades of historical and philosophical grey, but an objective, universal concept that can be unbiasedly and accurately measured.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Jumping isn't as important to my training as you might think; I'm only in the sandpit once a week. There's a high risk factor of injury doing it, so instead, I rely on my progress in the gym to judge how far I'll jump on the big day.

Money is not the ultimate point, but it remains the actual measure of success.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes - which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.

If people want to follow an illusion that you don't have to pay your way, you don't have to measure up, then there are serious consequences for any country.

At Natura, we have long been committed to measure and improve the impacts of our activities.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Improving education is an area where we can find common ground. We have to measure our progress and hold ourselves accountable.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Baseball is a game of inches.

I would say my best feature has to be my legs - they are 41.5 inches long!

Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.

I say I'm 5 feet 12 inches. I'm definitely 6 feet. In my heels, I'm 6 feet 3 inches.

A menudo creemos que las cosas son de por sí grandes o de por sí pequeñas, y no nos damos cuenta de que lo que llamamos tamaño no es sino una relación entre las cosas.

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Taken together, he said, these two lines of inquiry made it clear that the safe number was, at most, 350 parts per million.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

If I put my pinkie to my thumb, I can cover my wrist all the way to the knuckle. When I get a watch, I always have to go and get extra holes put in or get a special bracelet that's adjustable.