measurement quotes

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

It’s so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I’ve never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.