Top 309 Units Quotes & Sayings

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

We expect the market for convergence devices to double to 100 million units in 2006.

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.

When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;… so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom.

Underperforming hospitals or units should accept that they have to improve the service they offer or that patients, quite properly, will go elsewhere.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

All front-line combat jobs in the infantry, special operations units and elsewhere are now open to women.

Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

I have an Otari with a Korg T2 Midi synthesizer, a drum machine and a few effects units.

After decades of working in emergency rooms and intensive care units, I've learned how to keep my emotions in check and get the job done.

The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while such correspondence is, probably, the most fundamental general feature of life on Earth.

The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.

The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

You want to really prevent the construction of units? Pass rent control.

When I meet viewers in person, it always seems to be entire family units.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

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

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

What's really interesting is when you see players using tactics or combinations of units that we'd never even thought of.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

A real strategy is not bottom up because it deals with issues that require unexpected or unusual types action, especially of coordination among units.

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a very substantial way, to eradicating the effect of the impact of the cartels on Mexico. We have - what are called vetted units down there. Units that have been vetted by our law enforcement people there, the people with whom we deal - primarily.

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

The schools schedule is a series of units of time; the clock is king.

I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of.

The exceptional feature of education programmes in Punjab is that students of all federating units have their due share in them.

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.

I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

Eventually, when I sell enough units, as they say in the record business, I will stop touring. I'll concentrate on what I like to do... stay in the studio.

There's been a lot of disappointments with the Iraqi army, no doubt about that. Some units have performed well, especially their special operations units. But a lot of their units have not.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

All things, in all their aspects, consist exclusively of 'souls', that is, of various kinds of subjects, or units of experiencing, with their qualifications, relations, and groupings, or communities.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

With the help of the local government units (LGU) there's a chance weightlifting will be reintroduced again in Palarong Pambansa.