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Quotes About Measurement

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
~ Andy Warhol
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
If we want something to count in our lives, we should figure out a way to count it.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
~ Gretchen Rubin
note: people weigh their highest on Sunday;14 their lowest, on Friday morning.)
~ Gretchen Rubin
else. Self-measurement brings self-awareness, and self-awareness strengthens our self-control.
~ Gretchen Rubin
I was reminded of Lord Kelvin's observation, overbroad but nevertheless thought-provoking: "When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
~ Gretchen Rubin
When you cannot express it in number, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.
~ Gretchen Rubin
We manage what we monitor.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Success is a relative thing?and the victory of a boy at marbles is equal to the victory of an Octavius at Actium when measured by the scale of cosmic infinity.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They were large, even for the mus decumanus, which sometimes measures fifteen inches in length
~ H.P. Lovecraft
At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all.
~ Eugene Levy
I thought I was in good shape. When I was at Burnley, and we got our body fat done, I had a really good percentage. Sean Dyche was happy. I went to Tottenham, and I was well high - I think they pinch you tougher at Tottenham - that's what I think. Unless it was my all-inclusive holiday in Mexico.
~ Kieran Trippier
No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.
~ Carolyn Porco
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
~ Victoria Pendleton
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
~ Satish Kumar
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
~ George Carlin
You know if you walked around the world, your hat would travel thirty-one feet farther than your shoes?
~ David Wong
Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.
~ Steve Blank
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
~ Galileo Galilei
Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
~ Sidney Madwed
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
~ Sigmund Freud
But to "bring something to light" is not to question its existence, but merely to decide whether or not something should be permitted within the realm of the real, the realm of the ruler (of that which is measurable), or to leave it outside the realm, in the "outer darkness.
~ Simon
125.00% Mean     149.17% Standard Deviation     43.47%
~ Simon Quellen Field