Quotes About Measurement

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

Measurement owes its existence to Earth; Estimation of quantity to Measurement; Calculation to Estimation of quantity; Balancing of chances to Calculation; and Victory to Balancing of chances.

With characteristic exuberance Tom named this curiously constructed house Castel des Tours saunz Nowmbre, which means the Castle of Innumerable Towers. David Montefiore had counted the innumerable towers in 1764. There were fourteen of them.

repression, which "proceeds from the self-respect of the ego … [the person] has set up an ideal in himself by which he measures his actual ego [self]…. For the ego the formation of an ideal would be the conditioning factor of repression" (1914c, pp. 93-94).

There's something very satisfying about numbers. Numbers are what they are. They are very straightforward. Unlike people.

El tiempo, medido en dinero, es la droga más efectiva que existe. La dosificamos de forma cicatera y egoísta para dar la espalda a cualquier mínimo atisbo de sinceridad.

while eighteen-button gloves have three small pearl buttons each at the musketeer (which everyone knows is the opening at the wrist), there are, indeed, eighteen buttons on each in length. That button is a standard of measurement of approximately one inch. The approximate part is because it is a French standard of measurement.

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

In baking, cooks need to understand ingredient ratios.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

And when I gave him the urn, he weighed it in his hand and declared she wasn't quite all there—she'd weighed a full one hundred and sixty-five pounds when she was alive—so he weighed her on a scale and then sat down and worked out that there ought to be another one and three-quarter ounces of her

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.

Scott noted that Walmart had similar techniques. It could measure whether a certain item, such as a globe for children, could lift the sale of another item, like a coloring book, if they were placed next to each other on a store display. Both companies had a deep interest in testing these combinations.

He had the marketing department organize tests, running commercials in only the Minneapolis and Portland media markets and measuring whether they generated an uptick in local purchases. They did—but, Bezos concluded, not enough to justify the investment.12 "It was pretty clear afterward that TV advertising wasn't really having an impact," says Mark Stabingas, a finance vice president who joined the company from Pepsi.

His personal wealth was larger than the gross domestic product of Hungary; larger than even the market capitalization of General Motors.

Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help.

I wish there was a machine that could accurately measure sadness, and display it in numbers that you could record. And it would be great if that machine could fit in the palm of your hand. I think of this every time I measure the air in my tires.