Top 1200 Metric System Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.

You go with what you got. That's the thing about having a system, then you plug guys into your system.

If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you're stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system.

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Whenever the immune system deals successfully with an infection, it emerges from the experience stronger and better able to confront similar threats in the future. Our immune system develops in combat. If, at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger.

I want to see a new system. I believe that the credit scoring system is broken. That's my belief.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

If you look at the minutes of the constitutional convention - which we have - Madison who was the main framer, proceeded to develop a system in which - as he put it - power would be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible set of men and who recognize the need to protect the rights of property owners. That's why in the constitutional system, the most powerful part of the whole system is the senate.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

Over time I realised that the most important thing is not the system but the players you have. Then you make a system for them.

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that.

I think when he [Vladimir Putin] calls me brilliant I will take the compliment, okay? I mean, the man has very strong control over a country. Now, it's a very different system and I don't happen to like the system. But certainly in that system, he has been a leader far more than our president has been a leader.

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

You don't change the system without changing the people behind the system.

I'm going to be honest with you - I don't know a lot about Cuba's healthcare system. Is it a government-run system?

In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics of the system are imminent, not in some part, but in the system as a whole.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

It's always hard for a guy who's been in a system for seven years and then to transition into another system.

The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.

In a sluggish system, aggressiveness produces instability. Either be patient or make the system more responsive.

Clubs like Manchester United or Barcelona have a system, and then you hire personnel who fit this system.

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

China is not I think a country which does not regulate, but there is a difference between the Chinese system and the Indian system.

The usual metric for whether a planet is habitable or not is to ascertain whether liquid water could exist on its surface. Most worlds will either be too cold, too hot or of a type (like Jupiter) that may have no solid surface and be swaddled in noxious gases.

It's pretty much the same; it's just that Phil was very weird with his system. This is more of the traditional system.

Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump.

Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality.

There's no denying that if I were designing a health care system from scratch, I'd build a Medicare for All system.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

Good scientists will fight the system rather than learn to work with the system.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

The German system is way less fair than it is expected to be, and the difference is becoming bigger. The private system, with its privilege to pay doctors and hospitals better, is basically putting the whole system at jeopardy, because many first-class hospitals and first-class physicians are wasting their time on trivial cases of privately insured and are no longer accessible for the difficult cases from the public system, despite [the fact] that the hospitals and also the education of those professionals is paid for by public money.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

[Bernie] Sanders is fighting against a system. He sounds good. The system is rotten to the core.

I think we have to remember that the white patriarchal system actually benefits white women in a lot of the ways and they're attached to white men who are benefiting from the system that was created by them, for them, and their fathers and their husbands and their brothers are benefiting from the system and so they are also benefiting.

The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse.

Believe me, folks, I've been saying it for a long time. The system, the whole system is rigged.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.