Quantified Quotes

USG's announcement of an agreement to resolve asbestos personal injury claims should show the U.S. Senate once and for all exactly why S.852 is a boon to a handful of Fortune 50 companies and a death knell to smaller and medium-sized companies. It is rare that the financial benefits inherent in a piece of legislation for a single company are so clearly quantified -- no wonder companies like USG are spending millions of dollars on advertising to get this bill passed. - Tom O'Brien

This is the first time that anyone has quantified the effects of sleep inertia. - Kenneth Wright

This is the first time that a recent and alarming decline of a great ape population, brought about by [people], has been demonstrated, dated, and quantified using genetic information. - Benoit Goossens

Of course there is a risk there but so far we have not quantified these risks in these forecasts. - Joaquin Almunia

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded. - Rita Dove

It's difficult to make any financial decision when you're dealing with goals that are not quantified. - Barbara Steinmetz

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances. - Robert Sternberg

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. - Polly Toynbee

Even at 10 percent [of body weight], the pressures were still high, and that hasn't been quantified before. - Brandon Macias

Behaviors such as those observed during our study provide a useful and sensitive tool for gauging the effects of recreational activities on wildlife. If bird behavior can be carefully quantified, then management strategies can be developed before these and other potentially harmful activities result in long-term negative consequences to bird populations. - Robert Steidl