Quantify Quotations

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

No scoring system is perfect, but a system that provides for flexibility in scores, if applied by the same taster without prejudice, can quantify different levels of wine quality and provide the reader with one professional's judgment.

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.

Some aspects are easy to quantify, some are not. What I can't quantify is the impact of the wireless transition on our sales due to fact that we have less inventory and less active promotional activity.

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, abandoning stereotypes, or feeling empathy as a result of a performance, a film, a book?

Most studies on acid rain have looked at the soil from one to 10 years or less, ... where we couldn't reliably quantify the chemical changes in the soil exchange complex.

We may never be able to quantify from the outside whether this strategy works. It's a question of the corporate culture at Siemens.

He's been huge for us. I don't think you can even quantify it. He's probably been as important as any player we've had. We've had a lot of great players, a lot of important players, but I'm not sure that you could say anybody was more important than Gerry.

The purpose of the report was to quantify and explain the economic value of aviation in South Carolina.

Last season was our most experienced team. It's hard to quantify (how much talent was lost), but we did lose a lot.

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

It is a big deal but it is very hard to quantify what the impact could be on Microsoft.

We haven't found a way to quantify light pollution at this time, but we can come up with design standards to limit light pollution.

While Cisco is only five weeks into the third quarter and it is premature to quantify the impact of this current business climate, we do expect a wider range of estimates for the remainder of this fiscal year.

We only have theories about the biggest waves, because it's hard to get observations to quantify the theory.

We would really need for the DOD to quantify the demand to assess whether prices for wood could rise in the market as a result. I don't think the consumer has something to worry about right now.

We are looking to establish quick gains, though it is too early to quantify what the cost savings will be.

Warhol was definitely an inspiration when I was younger. I wouldn't quantify his sort of influence. I've been influenced by nature and science, and I've been influenced by people like Ernst and Rauschenberg, Cornell and Bosch and Bruegel, by writers like Haruki Murakami to Pablo Neruda to Artaud.

Every situation has qualities. Essentially, we quantify them and that's the practical side of our lives, so the involvement with perception and in acquiring the perception is our ability to understand qualities. They exist only as long as a human being keeps them in play. They're - Therefore they are akin to energy.

Everyone's got an intuition about the risk of everyday life. We thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if we could quantify it?' And once you begin to do that, you realize that everyday life is not benign.

Everybody knows him for one thing. So we tried to work on the rest of it. You can quantify it or qualify it that way - we worked on everything but the deep ball.

While the penalty appears excessive, we cannot quantify the exact exposure with certainty,

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab does not have the capacity to quantify the amount of methamphetamine in a separating liquid.

Dell is saving itself some money. Warranty is difficult to quantify because it depends on how much the customer uses it, but there is a warranty cost,

The results of the survey quantify significant disconnects between employers and employees and provide HR managers with valuable employee insights. Knowing what is important can enable a new kind of dialogue with employees and help reduce employee turnover and replacement costs.

There's no agreement on what it is that constitutes a dangerous climate change. We know things like this are possible, but we don't have enough information to quantify the level of risk.

The best security organizations I've worked with understand and attempt to quantify the risk-management decisions they make on an ongoing basis.

It's impossible to quantify David's leadership with the loss of a No. 2 starter. If I had to choose, I wouldn't want to part with either of them.

It takes the what-ifs and the gut-decision making out of the process, and lets you quantify your decisions with numbers.

I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

It's an Atom Egoyan movie, ... We know he's not the world's great pornographer. It's hard to quantify what kind of damage (the rating) will have done.

You can quantify almost every other water right.

It's simply too difficult to quantify at this stage what kind of economic impact any of these policies will have because who knows if they will ever make it through Congress. But from both a market point of view and from an economic point of view, the best possible scenario would be gridlock. It means they have to come together and do something more reasonable than more extreme. And that's what everyone out there wants.

Everybody can try and quantify the impact and importance of the full-size truck portfolio to the company. Certainly during the life of the GMT-800, it probably carried the day a number of times.

It's a small number and everyone knows it's going to grow. Today's number will only begin to describe and quantify the tragedy.

It's absolutely impossible to quantify the impact of Sept. 11.

We cannot begin to quantify the potential damage in terms of gross domestic product, but a realistic scenario might be GDP declines in the tens of percent, ... In the case of slower growing economies such as Europe or Japan, a decade's economic growth could be wiped out.

This may seem like common sense to most folks, but there's really been no literature or science where researchers tried to quantify and verify the effect.