Top 137 Measurements Quotes & Sayings

They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

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

There's something very old-fashioned and luxurious to have a pair of pants and jacket made to your needs and measurements.

It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

I am more than my measurements. I'm not Ashley Graham just because I'm curvy.

I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.

When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit of life.

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.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

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.

I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold.

In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

Some time ago, I investigated the possibility that a computer might be able to reconstruct a picture from sets of very accurate X-ray measurements taken through the body at a multitude of different angles.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

I don t have a scale; I'm not big on measurements. Until a person looks in the mirror and is happy with themselves, you have not reached your fitness goals.

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.

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

It's very difficult to tell when you're successful, because it's so hard to make measurements.

All scientists should be skeptics. The reason why is that, even with the best of scientific measurements, we can come up with all kinds of explanations of what those measurements mean in terms of cause and effect, and yet most of those explanations are wrong. It's really easy to be wrong in science ... it's really hard to be right.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.

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.

Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

I've been 5-6 since I've been at least 17 or 18. I think somebody made a mistake on the measurements.

There are a lot of mysteries about quantum mechanics, but they mostly arise in very detailed measurements in controlled settings.

The first time someone said, 'What are your measurements?' I answered, '37, 24, 38 - but not necessarily in that order.'

[In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.

Man up and add a tux to your wardrobe. Just find one you like and get it well-tailored to your own measurements.

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

A gifted experimentalist, and theoretician, in the best Newtonian tradition... His contributions to quantum measurements, and elucidative teachings on quantum mechanics, have not yet received the attention they deserve.

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.

My costumes are the same measurements they were when I was 19, 20 years old. I eat pizza and ice cream, but whenever I gain three or four pounds, that sets off a red alarm.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.

Kinship among nations is not determined in such measurements as proximity of size and age.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

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.

The discovery of the Quantized Hall Effect (QHE) was the result of systematic measurements on silicon field effect transistors - the most important device in microelectronics.

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long.

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.

In spite of the evidence for the disorder-induced M-I transition as inferred from the transport and optical measurements, the metallic state of conjugated polymers has been a subject of controversy.

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan.

The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

OM was really sort of at the cutting edge. They have the best quality, the highest performance, the longest list of technology measurements you can gather - so we felt like they were the right partner for us.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.