Measurement Quotes · Page 3

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

— Penelope Wilton

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of…

— Emily Haines

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

— Dean Radin

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

— Willis Lamb

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one's success and it is best to not get carried away by…

— Sunil Chhetri

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

— Simon Sinek

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also…

— Antony Hewish

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

— Max Planck

I have my boots custom-fitted in Cardiff. Everyone s feet are different, so to get measured up is a great bonus. You…

— Peter Crouch

We need to stop comparing ourselves to others, and stop patting ourselves on the back for attaining artificial measurements of spirituality. We…

— Dan Schilling

There's no right way. There's no measurement system. That's why, you know, art competitions are a little confusing to me. I mean,…

— Emma Stone

“For millenia, scientists always try to measure the size of this vast universe. One way to know that is first to find…

— Toba Beta

There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too…

— Oliver Lodge

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man;…

— Anonymous

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of…

— Henry Beston

All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with…

— Roy Spencer

British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported…

— Mike Harding

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something…

— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first…

— Mark Gatiss

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be…

— Steve Jobs

Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the…

— Lyman Spitzer

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that…

— Wernher von Braun

Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple…

— Robert D. Hare

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004…

— Lincoln Chafee

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

— Tyler Cowen

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

— Marcel Boulestin

“The real purpose of performance indicator is to provide business insight and monitor the progress and performance.”

— Pearl Zhu

All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it;…

— Huangbo Xiyun

“The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the…

— David Spade

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements.…

— Bede Jarrett

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

“Keep strategy management and performance management synchronized to accelerate digital transformation.”

— Pearl Zhu

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

— Heywood Hale Broun

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if…

— Erwin Schrodinger