Measurement Quotes

I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

What gets measured gets done.

No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating.

Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys.

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes.

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

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

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

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

The heart of science is measurement.

All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

The laboratory routine, which involves a great deal of measurement, filing, and tabulation, is either my lifeline or my chief handicap, I hardly know which.

A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

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

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

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

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

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

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

Money is the currency of life because it is the external measurement system that all of us have as to how we judge where we are in our own lives.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

It is a real issue, a measurement of our society, when we say it's fine to destroy unborn life who has a heartbeat at 16 days post-conception.

But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.

The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.

If you don’t want to regret your life later, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life. Measure your life by the products and by the results you produce!

If you don’t want to regret your life late, then begin to invest your time, begin to measure your life.

Measure your life by the value you have added.

Measure your life by how much of your time you have converted.

Wisdom is not measured by age, Intelligence is not measured by grades, Personality is not measured by what others say

The proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life, you will regret it.

Measure your life by products and by the results you produce.

The first thing you need to know in order to properly measure your time is that you must not delay.

I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies