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Metric Quotes

As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole. Lance Secretan
The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. Dave Barry
Johnson, who defines poetry as 'metrical composition', defines poet as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'. C. S. Lewis
P. J. O'Rourke quote: "Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system"
Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system P. J. O'Rourke
I am not answering these questions anymore," I said to him as I took my plate to the sink. "We should have gone metric years ago."Iain Banks Iain Banks
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' Brian Ferneyhough
Andrew Mason quote: "The list of companies that have added their own financial..."
The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group. Andrew Mason
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car. Doug Coupland
Patton Oswalt quote: "I'm not familiar with the metric system."
I'm not familiar with the metric system. Patton Oswalt
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
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. John C. Ransom
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

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