Measuring Quotes
172 quotes by 162 authors
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
— Erma Bombeck
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil…
— Benjamin Peirce
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I can't say that I was my happiest on court, but I felt completely free. Free from family obligations, free from my own torment. In…
— Jimmy Connors
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No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
— Washington Irving
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The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and…
— Wolfgang Ostwald
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I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and…
— Keith Devlin
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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred, that we cannot…
— James Hutton
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Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout…
— Irving Townsend
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Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
— Edmund Pellegrino
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There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither…
— Roy Crowson
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'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...
— Clive Woodward
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Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing…
— Denis Waitley
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We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have,…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for…
— Richard P. Feynman
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In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for…
— Lord Kelvin
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There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct…
— Oliver Lodge
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We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is…
— Hermann Bondi
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