Best Measurement Quotations

195 Measurement quotes by 177 unique authors

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. — Douglas Coupland
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an… — Lincoln Chafee
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work… — Martin Lewis Perl
The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on the surface of… — Arpad Elo
The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.' — Carol Burnett
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t… — James Harrington
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel
Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and… — Margaret Mead
While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love… — David Buss
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements — Audrey Hepburn
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important — Seth Godin
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa
The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its… — Leo Bogart
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to… — James Clerk Maxwell
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… — Phyllis Diller
Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land… — Frederick Seitz
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. — Donald Sutherland
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can… — Thomas Merton
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys. — Franz Karl Achard
People focus too much on weight, dress sizes, and tape measurements - and those aren't motivating. What gets me going is: I'm 52, and because… — Tony Horton
Every person exceeds our power of measurement. — Charlotte Mason
There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement… — Christopher Hitchens
A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where… — Marilyn Monroe
To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early… — Rudy Vallee

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