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I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. -- Christie Hefner
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 Jampolsky
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. -- Paul D. Boyer
Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win. -- Lincoln Chafee
There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi
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
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. -- Marcus Garvey
Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society. -- Robert D. Hare
Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it. -- Amber Naslund
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. -- David H. Hubel
Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important -- Seth Godin
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. -- Thomas Hardy
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it. -- James Harrington
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. -- Grace Hopper
There is more to sex appeal than just measurements -- Audrey Hepburn
I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement. -- Corey Haim
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. -- Bill Gates
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. -- Erica Jong
The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations. -- Benjamin Todd Jealous
What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. -- Charles Francis Richter
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. -- Ben Bernanke
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. -- Douglas Coupland
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. -- Tyler Cowen
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. -- Howard Gardner
The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed policies, and they weren't smiling. -- Raul Ruiz
Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that. -- Robert D. Hare
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool. -- Malcolm Mclaren
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
All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others. -- John Engler
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. -- Jay Griffiths
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. -- Antony Hewish
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. -- Martin Lewis Perl
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. -- Gregory Bateson
I want to get back to my fighting weight of 98 pounds. I have the exact measurements of that guy from the movie, Powder. Right now, I am the reigning West Coast Powder. -- David Spade
Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate. -- Leila Janah
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement. -- Victor Francis Hess
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We did experiments with the Boston Symphony for many years where we measured the angles of incidence of sound arriving at the ears of the audience, then took the measurements back to MIT and analyzed them. -- Amar Bose
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. -- Jay Griffiths
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. -- Daniel Goleman
Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. -- Carl David Anderson
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. -- Victor Francis Hess
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? -- Dennis Prager
It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way. -- John Hutton
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it. -- Jay Griffiths
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. -- Isaac Asimov
My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens. -- Tino Sehgal
The heart of science is measurement. -- Erik Brynjolfsson
Every person exceeds our power of measurement. -- Charlotte Mason
One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. -- Donald Sutherland
Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after. -- Eben Pagan
Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself. -- Brian Tracy
Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement. -- Michael Dolan
Time is but a thought, a means of measurement, not a reality. -- Antiphon
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. -- Marcus Garvey
A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement. -- Patrick Lencioni
No effect that requires more than 10 percent accuracy in measurement is worth investigating. -- Walther Nernst
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured. -- Niels Bohr
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa. -- Werner Heisenberg
Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery. -- Enrico Fermi
We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement. -- Dean Radin
All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data. -- Amber Naslund
A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys. -- Franz Karl Achard
The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for." -- John F. Kerry
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement. -- Lord Kelvin
An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer. -- Max Planck
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them? -- Penelope Wilton
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale. -- Edouard Vuillard
As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes. -- Micah Lexier
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms. -- David Dreman
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement. -- Dick Costolo
Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time. -- Michael Beckwith
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning. -- Satish Kumar
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. Goldratt
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. -- Aditi Shankardass
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. -- Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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. -- Arthur David Ritchie
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. -- Charles Francis Richter
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
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. -- Tom Coburn
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh. -- Terry Pratchett
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. -- Anita Roddick
I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine. -- John Muir
I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science. -- John Henry Carver
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
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. -- Udny Yule
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. -- Emily Haines
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. -- Rudolf Virchow
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The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams. -- Jeremy Narby
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
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture. -- Alan Huffman
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. -- John Hull
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. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Suze Orman
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement. -- William Forsyth Sharpe
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 Galgut
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 . -- Val Logsdon Fitch
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy. -- John Dos Passos
In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it. -- Warren Buffett
However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function. -- Jim Al-Khalili
We're using gradients of light as an auric measurement, a quantified auric measurement of the ascension of consciousness from the relatively sensorial, material perceptions of existence to the more refined spiritual perceptions of existence. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real, -- Edward Snowden
The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into. -- Benjamin Zander

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