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Quotes about Measurement

But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
How careful we must be not to think that God is less holy because others seem to get away with irreverence! We are sometimes tempted to measure our respect for God by the lack of respect surrounding us. The godless, however, are not our standard. God is. Through the pen of King David, God told us to "praise him according to his excellent greatness," not according to public opinion (Ps. 150:2 KJV).
- Beth Moore
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
- Patrick Lencioni
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
- Ann Voskamp
Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.
- Billy Graham
Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
- Billy Graham
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
- Billy Graham
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
- Dallas Willard
The bell that measures time is ringing.
- Margaret Atwood
God cannot be held to the narrowness of literal and materialistic interpretations, nor measured by Human measurements, for His days are eons, and a thousand ages of our time are like an evening to Him.
- Margaret Atwood
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
- George Bernard Shaw
The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.
- Seth Godin