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
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about… — Mariska Hargitay 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
Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false… — Walter A. Shewhart Copy Share Image
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that… — Erwin Schrodinger 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
Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of,… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson 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
The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of… — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It… — Terry Pratchett 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
“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
I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper,… — Alicia Sacramone Copy Share Image
Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you… — Roy Spencer Copy Share Image
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what… — Malcolm Mclaren 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 business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement… — John Henry Carver 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
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms. — David Dreman Copy Share Image
Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of… — Branch Rickey 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
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging… — Jean Dubuffet 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
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer,… — Asher Peres Copy Share Image
The concept of 'measurement' becomes so fuzzy on reflection that it is quite surprising to have it appearing in physical theory at… — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image