But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character leadership creativity perseverance.

Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for and beauty of accurate measurement.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature but the measure can be acquired by art.

In every work of art the subject is primordial whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When thou art above measure angry bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?