Quotes About Measurement

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

You set standards so things can be measured and done at a championship level.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.

Every man at three years old is half his height

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.

If we don't measure the impact of our efforts on the objectives of those we are serving, we will remain blind to important ways we need to adjust and will end up not serving others well.

To ignore what cannot be measured in precise numbers is like counting the stems in a bouquet of flowers while ignoring the indescribable perfume and beauty of each bud.

Michael Hammer, el experto en procesos, indica que un proccso debe mcdirsc. Si no hay medicion, la gcntc dentro de la organizacion no interiorizara la severidad y la urgencia de este.` F,n otras palabras, si no mides el proceso, la gente pensara que este no importa. Sera solo otra declaracion en la pared o en el boletin.

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

A materialist age makes neurotics of those who measure their life in minutes. Teetotalling totalitarians know the cost of life, but not the value.

When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.

It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.

astronomical units

There is scarcely a subject that cannot be mathematically treated and the effects calculated or the results determined beforehand from the available theoretical and practical data.

Aam AAM, noun [Chaldee for a cubit, a measure containing 5 or 6 palms.] A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.

Hate took the place of love as our measurement of popularity. For it takes everything to be loved. To be loved is to serve as a slave. Hate demonstrates a complete freedom from pleasing others.