the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys. — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
Every measurement of where you have more public confidence in creating jobs, American prosperity, controlling crime, health care, providing education, all of… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. — Dick Costolo Copy Share Image
“Anything you try to quantify can be divided into any number of "anythings," or become the thing - the unit - itself.… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Judging others is just wasting your time, giving your advice to men who don't pay.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“The goal of measurement is to not only do things right but do the right things and continuously improve doing that.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Monetary calculation is not the calculation, and certainly not the measurement, of value. Its basis is the comparison of the more important… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“I distinguish five types of indicatorism: 1. performing easy, indicator-improving tasks; 2. avoiding difficult, indicator-worsening tasks; 3. improving an indicator for the… — Berend van der Kolk Copy Share Image
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails… — John Hull Copy Share Image
When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall,… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
