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Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
He that measures not himselfe, is measured.
What gets measured gets done.
What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
The measure of space & time creates an echo of haunting distance between us, yet we are close, we are united in the love we forge together.
I have a sort of inner sense for scale.
measure up - disillusion us by showing
Cities are the huge central dynamos of all being. The power of a man can be measured today by the mile, the number of miles between him and the city; that is, between him and what the city stands for
the centre of mass.
The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."
There's a measure in all things.
Give me an inch and I'll give you a mile.
Don't measure what you can. Measure what you should.
Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
If you can't measure it, you can't change it.
So often we are defined by what we've done
and the mistakes we've made
For once I would like to be
Measured by the steps I took today
Rather than the footprints of yesterday
Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.
My yardstick is how somebody treats me.
All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.
Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.
Distance is nothing when you are something.
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West
We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense ...
There is no escape from metre; there is only mastery.
The measure of love is love without measure.
thousand miles away and
How can you measure acting in inches?!?
Quanity has it's own quality.
A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe.
I'm supposed to be here taking measurements, but I haven't even brought a measuring tape. And it's not the apartment I need to measure -- it's the size of my balls.
Victory is not won in miles but in inches.
From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'
What gets measured gets managed.
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
By Tink's diaphram...!
Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.
If you can't measure it, you can't fix it.
If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.
Good marketers measure.
Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.
We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable sales model.
Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.
measure twice and cut once.) Fourth,
Take me to 'nowhere' when distance belongs here,there,everywhere.
Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.
eight, nine kilometers - more than halfway!
What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.
We treasure what we can measure.
Distance, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs and keep.
Man is the measure of all things
Time is measured in meaning
Dimension comes a different kind of knowing,
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
From the cradle to the grave, you are measured against the ever-present yardstick of the average, judged according to how closely you approximate it or how far you are able to exceed it.
Megadeath: a unit of measure equal to one million human casualites
Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure
For without a measure
Success is achieved in inches, not miles.
Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.
All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, you can't understand it. If you can't understand it, you can't control it. If you can't control it, you can't improve it.
My business is circumference.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
Don't count the miles, count the I love you's!
We're taking it a hundred miles north.
That's a hundred miles closer to where you are.
I've decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.
With you there are only two distances that matter:
Here.
Not here.
You are not here.
This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.
Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Away from the numbers
What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.
Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.
My laps-meter, the first caliper of the soul and the first hope of bridging the dread chasm that has rent the soul of Western man ever since the famous philosopher Descartes ripped body loose from mind and turned the very soul into a ghost that haunts its own house.
The measure of love is to love without measure.
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.
Who will you measure Me with, so that we should be like each other?
Quantity equals scale weight.
Impressive technological development makes us capable of measuring almost everything, but measurement error problems still remain.
Miles and miles and miles.
I have a map of the united states ... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
All sports are games of inches.
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental wellbeing and not being more than say five minutes late. It
I am a stranger to half measures.
What gets measured gets improved.
There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
Little,
It is a small measure
But can you measure love?
Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.
Our love can't be measured. It just is.
Measure twice; cut once.
When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.