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  • You can't quantify everything a player does to win games. -- Derek Jeter
  • The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what. -- Nick Mason
  • There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify. -- Brandon Routh
  • You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. -- Yann Martel
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  • As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard. -- Adora Svitak
  • All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous. -- Noreena Hertz
  • There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease. -- David Agus
  • All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment. -- Tadao Ando
  • It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. -- Polly Toynbee
  • We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget. -- Paul Gillmor
  • No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment. -- Robert M. Parker, Jr.
  • Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify. -- Bear Grylls
  • Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? -- Sarah Parcak
  • Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.' -- Anne Wojcicki
  • Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud. -- Dustin Yellin
  • Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book? -- Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy. -- Robert Irwin
  • What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen. -- Harrison Ford
  • I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic. -- Zooey Deschanel
  • The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth. -- Seth Godin
  • Do not measure the number of tragedies you suffer, quantify the success derived from the. -- Jacqueline Susann
  • You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors. -- Emily Giffin
  • Myth continues to be a valuable way to understand parts of our nature that we can't quantify. -- Karen Russell
  • Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them. -- Jacqueline Susann
  • I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify. -- Pat Metheny
  • Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. -- Peter Lynch
  • If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing. -- Mika Brzezinski
  • Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality. -- Boris Beizer
  • A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. -- Thomas Harris
  • Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation. -- Martin Lindstrom
  • It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name. -- Gene Weingarten
  • If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things. -- Adam Richman
  • In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust. -- Lauren Oliver
  • It is given to us to live for the most part under the guidance of mathematics ... It is impossible to distinguish from other living creatures anyone who does not understand how to quantify. -- Cassiodorus
  • Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies. -- Marilyn Manson
  • You can call it what you like, categorize it, vivisect it, qualify, quantify, or dismiss it, and none of it will make grace anything other than precisely what grace is: audacious, unwarranted, and unlimited. -- Cathleen Falsani
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