Quotes About Measurement

One does not judge one's state of health by comparing it to that of a sick person

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie.

Así es como en nuestro pobre país se miden el talento y la fama, de manera directamente proporcional a la envidia.

All measurement begins (and in the end, ends) with ourselves.

You can't begin to measure something until you make some assumptions about what that something is.

Measurement, it's probably fair to say, is the cornerstone of knowledge.

It has to be understood, it has to be measured, and the investment needs to make sense, but debt on its face is not a bad thing.

Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.

For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things.  On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe.  And the human understanding is like a false mirror; which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

In the operative part there are two defects and two corresponding prerogatives of instances. For operation either fails us or it overtasks us. The chief cause of failure in operation (especially after natures have been diligently investigated) is the ill determination and measurement of the forces and actions of bodies.

Has anyone ever weighed a 'lighthouse' on a scale", Is a 'lighthouse' lighter than 'greenhouse' or a 'smokehouse'?

topic underscore how much contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current

For all the intrinsic meaning of the word kilometer, we might just as well say that "we're moving toward Leo at three pizzas and a cabbage per walrus.

The history of life unfolds over a time span so vast it boggles the imagination. I, for one, can draw no meaning from a million years, let alone a billion, and prefer a geographical metric. Let 1 millimeter, the thickness of a dime, stand for 1 year. Then 1 meter makes a millennium, 1 kilometer 1 million years, and the age of the earth (about 4.5 billion years) spans 4,500 kilometers, a little more than the distance between Miami and Seattle. As

where there is individual accountability, things get done. Measure is another magic word: what gets measured creates accountability. With no standard, reliable metric for customer relationships, employees can't be held accountable for them and so overlook their importance.

Each group was required to propose its own "fitness function"—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without ambiguity. For example, a two-pizza team in charge of sending advertising e-mails to customers might choose for its fitness function the rate at which these messages were opened multiplied by the average order size those e-mails generated.

Fair enough. Number two: Ask a woman how much she weighs. Then lift her. She'll have increased in weight. Feruchemists, every one.

Organizational values are gauzy and assessed in terms of aspirations rather than actual behaviors that can be taught, measured, and evaluated.

Courage is a collection of four skill sets that can be taught, observed, and measured. The four skill sets are: Rumbling with Vulnerability Living into Our Values Braving Trust Learning to Rise

Esu sur?k?s tiek daug cigare?i?, kad suguldžius ? linij? j? užtekt? nuo Stokholmo centro iki Siodertelj?s. Maždaug nuo Butšiurkos cigaret?s jau su filtru, bet nuo to ne k? geriau.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.