Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"There is more to sex appeal than just measurements"
Measurement quotes
Measurement
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Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"If you can't measure it, you can't change it."
Gary Johnson
Politician, Businessman
"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."
J. D. Salinger
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly"
Terry Pratchett
Author
"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices."
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"Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important"
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"The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself."
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"Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves."
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"Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age."
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"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."
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"Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory."
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