Relative Measurement Quotes

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 military capabilities of the United States need to be kept comfortably superior to those of present and potential enemies. But they should be measured relatively, against those enemies’ capabilities, and not against the limit of what is technologically possible or based on some vague urge to have more.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

Being first doesn’t mean anything unless there is a second.

MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.

I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest. Darkness, you know, is relative.

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility that goes with human judgment, can rate them, and that at least an attempt is made to measure their worth to an organization in relative terms, they are likely to sink back on length of service as the sole reason for retention and promotion.

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.