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• Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated clothes or spend ten days making a dress. Mine is all done by scaling measurements. I use the body as the land, as when building a house.

  Zoran

  Cutting, Land, Clothes

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• What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Sacrifice, Willing

  "Exclusive Interview: What Jada Pinkett Smith Gave Up for Her Family". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. July 12, 2011.

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• I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

  James Lovelock

  Believe, Data, Mind

  "James Lovelock on the value of sceptics and why Copenhagen was doomed" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  Harry Bertoia

  Moving, Yield, Appreciate

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• True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Giving, Judging

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• In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

  Steve Jobs

  Order, Ideas, Giving

  Interview with David Sheff, www.scribd.com. February 1, 1985.

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• Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Momentum, Mechanic

  Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands (2013). “The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. 3 for tablets”, Basic Books

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• The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Beautiful, Party

  "Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

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• Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to young people and gain a real insight into the impact of our work. The project enabled us to demonstrate YouthNets commitment to robust impact measurement as well as our commercial approach to project evaluation. Perhaps most importantly, being able to assign a monetary value to askTheSite has enabled YouthNet to convey to current and potential funders how valuable the service is for both young people and the wider society in a language that they understand

  Sarah McCoy

  Real, Commitment, Impact

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• But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.

  Val Logsdon Fitch

  Jobs, Mind, Way

  "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1980") edited by Wilhelm Odelberg, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1981.

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

  Heywood Hale Broun

  Golf, Games, Attention

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• I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mean, Science, Observation

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• With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Knowledge, Science

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  Eve Curie

  Science, Animal, Scent

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• The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it probably doesn't exist. And that closes us off to an enormous amount of phenomena that we may not be able to measure because they only happened once. For example, the Big Bang. ... That's one reason why they scoffed at higher dimensions for so many years. Now we realize that there's no alternative.

  Michio Kaku

  Believe, Science, Years

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• There is no instrument for measuring the pressure of the Ether, which is probably millions of times greater: it is altogether too uniform for direct apprehension. A deep-sea fish has probably no means of apprehending the existence of water, it is too uniformly immersed in it: and that is our condition in regard to the Ether.

  Oliver Lodge

  Mean, Science, Sea

  Oliver Lodge (2012). “Ether and Reality: A Series of Discourses on the Many Functions of the Ether of Space”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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• This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.

  Herodotus

  Kings, Science, Egypt

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• 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.

  Hermann Bondi

  Talking, Definitions, Way

  Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• They just elected me Mis Phonograph Record of 1966. They discovered my measurements were 33 1/2, 45, 78!

  Phyllis Diller

  Records, Phonograph

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• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Dirty, Men, Thinking

  "Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars, and Trends of that Decadent Decade". Book by Matthew Rettenmund, October 15, 1996.

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• Your body is not who you are. I don't think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

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• Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.

  Damon Galgut

  Language, Moments, Habit

  Damon Galgut (2011). “The Impostor”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, People

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• Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

  Michael Dolan

  Time, Enemy

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• In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

  Benjamin Zander

  Goal, World, Strive

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