Subjective Measurement Quotes

It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

I'm not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.