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• If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

  Gyles Brandreth

  Giving, Twelve, Christ

  Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  War, Metric System, Reason Why

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• Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls "make up" and politics calls "character" - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

  Christine Pelosi

  Baseball, Character, Maturity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

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• 1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mother, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

  Denis Boyles

  Stupid, Hate, Thinking

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• I'm not familiar with the metric system.

  Patton Oswalt

  Metric System, Familiar

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• There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.

  Michael Brenner

  Keys, Marketing, Three

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• Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

  Arianna Huffington

  Two, Giving, Balance

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.

  Lela Loren

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

  "Actor Lela Loren: Getting grounded, sweating it out, and loving yourself". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 21, 2015.

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• Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Meaningful, Thinking, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Impact, Usual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Engagement, Return

  "How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business And What You Can Do About It" by Simon Mainwaring, www.fastcompany.com. June 6, 2011.

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• When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Gratitude, Jobs, Educational

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• We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

  Donna Shalala

  Teacher, School, Differences

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Feelings, Shame, Absence

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• We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they’ll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I’m not going to get into what they are...

  Charles Schumer

  Agreement, People, Shadow

  "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2013.

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• If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

  Jesse Helms

  Jesus, Use, Metric System

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• The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Innovation, Different, Culture

  "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Differences, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 24, 2016

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• The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Revolution, Metric System, Lasting

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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• 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.

  Devon McDonald

  Track, Important, Portfolios

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• I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

  Bruce Hoffman

  Struggle, Knowing, Understanding

  "The Master Plan" by Lawrence Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2006.

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