Top 292 Measuring Quotes & Sayings

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.

Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

In my eyes, baking and pastry-making is like a science - all the measuring of quantities and temperatures.

Those clocks are sophisticated instruments that calculate time by measuring electrical charges called coulombs -- given the rapidity and volume of electrons that move through the measuring device the calibrator must adjust at certain points which was the delay you see -- the delay is just recalibrating for the clock moving too quickly during the 10 -- 10ths of a second before the delay -- this insures that the actual playing time during a period is exactly 20 minutes That is not an opinion -- that is science -- amazing devise quite frankly.

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

There is perhaps no better way of measuring the natural endowment of a soul than by its ability to transmute dissatisfaction into a creative impulse.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight

A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

A measuring jug is also vital when cooking rice, as this is always measured by volume rather than by weight.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

I'm well aware of the dynamics of turnout and measuring enthusiasm and identifying and turning out voters. That's something I'm cognizant of in running a successful campaign.

I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of the bow, I should be able to use similar techniques for measuring the way anybody moves, and so somebody who is not a professional or a trained musician, I should be able to make a musical environment for them.

I measure my life out in books." "You should be measuring your life by living. Correction: you shouldn't be measuring your life. What's the point?

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes in our study of the material universe-before you can do either to any purpose you must first select what you propose to count or measure, which presupposes a classification.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

Space is a way of measuring time; time is a way of measuring space.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second.

My recipes are simple, easy to do, but elegant. I have no time to fuss around with measuring cups.

Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches.

I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.

For every design goal you have, you have to have a corresponding measurement to know how you're doing - a way of measuring success.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

The two men eyed each other. Assessing strengths. Looking for weaknesses. Measuring dicks once again

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

The National Policy for Farmers calls for a paradigm shift from measuring agricultural progress merely in terms of growth rates, to measuring it in terms of the growth in the real income of farm families.

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

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

If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.

I know pastry chefs who are overwhelmed by the idea of tasting, rather than measuring, their way to a balanced vinaigrette.

You have to be careful about measuring the quality of education by the sheer number of dollars that you put into it.

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

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

Always use liquid measuring cups to measure liquid and dry measuring cups to measure dry. Especially when measuring flour, accuracy is important, so using only dry measuring cups - or better yet, weighing on a scale - is key.

Does the engineer ever predict the acceleration of a given body from a knowledge of its mass and of the forces acting upon it? Of course. Does the chemist ever measure the mass of an atom by measuring its acceleration in a given field of force? Yes. Does the physicist ever determine the strength of a field by measuring the acceleration of a known mass in that field? Certainly. Why then, should any one of these roles be singled out as the role of Newton's second law of motion? The fact is that it has a variety of roles.

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.