Erwin Schrodinger Quotes
The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.
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So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.
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If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.
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Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
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Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.
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I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?
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We really should be grateful to the people who participate in research and allow certain details to be published about themselves. Because if they didn't, we wouldn't have nearly the understanding of the brain that we do.
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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The only thing that's different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
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Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details.
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
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I need to know how the clock is made after you tell me what time it is. I want to know all the details so I can understand how it works.
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Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.
