Anthony Standen Quotes

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

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• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • View

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• The best vision is insight.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Best
  • Vision
  • Insight

• 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.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Numbers
  • Victim
  • Statistics

• When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • High

• The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

  

  Samuel Horsley
  • May
  • Rest
  • Connection

• A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Society
  • Groups

• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Great
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Good
  • Present
  • United States

• It was produced with very deep insight into the life of this performer. It?s the right tribute to who Liza is. People need to focus on the talent, not the tabloid headlines.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Life
  • Focus

• Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Literature
  • Statistics
  • Quarters

• It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Critics
  • Insight

• The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

  

  Vladimir Bukovsky
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Statistics

• This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Demand
  • Insight
  • Articulate

• You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Insight
  • Unseen
  • Defect Form

• Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • World
  • Way
  • Idea

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

  

  King James I
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • King

• It's just been a wild ride. We've finally been able to put the icing on the cake with this mission.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Mission
  • Ride
  • Icing

• Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

  

  Stewart Butterfield
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Fidelity

• Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Insight
  • Statistics
  • Reliable