Quotes and Sayings About Measurement
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Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
-- Amber Naslund -
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.
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements
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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.
-- Benjamin Zander -
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Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
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The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'
-- Carol Burnett -
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.
-- Charles Babbage -
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
-- Charles Francis Richter -
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Every person exceeds our power of measurement.
-- Charlotte Mason -
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.
-- Charlotte Mason -
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
-- Christie HefnerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.
-- Damon GalgutSource : Damon Galgut (2011). “The Impostor”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd
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We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.
-- Dean RadinSource : Dean Radin (2013). “Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities”, p.240, Deepak Chopra
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Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
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One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.
-- Eben Pagan -
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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?
-- Edward Tufte -
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
-- Edwin Powell HubbleSource : Quoted in Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (1991).
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The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
-- Eliyahu M. GoldrattSource : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge
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Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.
-- Enrico Fermi -
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Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the 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.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
-- Erwin Schrodinger -
Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
-- Fran TarkentonSource : "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.
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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.
-- Fritjof Capra -
Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
-- Gary JohnsonSource : "Transcript: Fox News-Google GOP Debate". www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2011.
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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.
-- George Washington -
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
-- Gerald JampolskySource : Gerald G. Jampolsky (2010). “Love Is Letting Go of Fear, Third Edition”, p.41, Celestial Arts