Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.
In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.
Progress is made where progress is measured.
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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.
If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.
If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.
In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion.
Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.
Sometimes you get blinded by results rather than the process.
Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.
Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.
One of the nice things about math and science is it’s obvious, you get the answer or you don’t get the answer.
