Best 103 quotes in «measurement quotes» category

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

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.

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

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.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

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

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

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

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

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

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

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

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

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 ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

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

The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

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.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

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

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

The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.

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 of IQ.

There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

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

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 success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

Whenever you can, count.

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.

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

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

All conflict in the world is essentially about our differences in measurement.

Amani ya moyo ndicho kipimo cha mafanikio yetu.

Any individual indicator can be a lead or lag indicator depending upon the context and explanatory model chosen.

A true Net Performance Score will take into account many aspects of a typical customer engagement.

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them.

Define clearly how you will measure success in meeting the business purpose and vision.

Don’t just play the number game, but connect the contextual dots and focus on the overall business objectives.

Every measure selected should be part of a link of cause-and-effect relationships, and ultimately affect the growth and long-term perspectives of the organization.

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.

For millenia, scientists always try to measure the size of this vast universe. One way to know that is first to find the smallest single thing that constructs this universe. When they get it, the real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.

If organizations measure the input to the strategy implementation, but not the output, it’s a recipe for disaster.

If you don’t monitor your life, you will regret it. If you don’t measure your life you will regret it. If you don’t convert your time into products you will regret it. If you don’t multiply your life you will soon find out that your life is almost finished with nothing to show for it.