Measurement Quotes

• If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Measure For Measure, Can Not, Measuring

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• All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

  Amber Naslund

  Data, Useless, World

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• I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Important

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Annual progress report 2013, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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  There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

  Audrey Hepburn

  Sex, Appeals, Contrary To Popular Belief

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• One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  Grace Hopper

  Women, Experts, Opinion

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• Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

  Richard Rogers

  Future, Past, Imagination

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.

  Steffi Graf

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

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• When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jobs

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees)”, p.94, John Wiley & Sons

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• In God we trust; all others bring data.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Funny Good Morning, Data, Favourite

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• Every person exceeds our power of measurement.

  Charlotte Mason

  Persons, Exceed

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

  Jose Padilha

  People, Description, Observation

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• If you can't measure it, you can't change it.

  Peter Drucker

  Measure For Measure, Can't Change, Measuring

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• What gets measured gets done.

  Tom Peters

  Done, Inspirational Customer Service

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.284, Vintage

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• Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Happiness, Success, Sports

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Beauty, Self Esteem

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• One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.

  Donald Sutherland

  Experts, Opinion, Thousand

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• I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Independent, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1982). “Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine”

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• To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Beautiful, Kind, Scales

  Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, April 2, 1891.

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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Business, Top Management, Systems And Processes

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• There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Discovery, Two

  "Nuclear Principles in Engineering". Book by Tatjana Jevremovic, 2005.

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• I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

  Lord Kelvin

  Math, Science, Numbers

  Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).

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• Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Eye, Science, Thinking

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• It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a thing is good or bad, noxious or beneficial, but of what kind it is? And how much is there of it? Quality and Quantity were then first recognised as the primary features to be observed in scientific inquiry.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Discovery

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Book, Answers, Looks

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