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

• 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

• In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Fall
  • Morality

• There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border.

  

  Alvin Williams
  • Become
  • Citizens
  • Border

• I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

  

  Paul Giamatti
  • Interesting
  • Acting
  • Talking

• I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

  

  Owen Wister
  • Soul
  • Humans
  • Damage

• Dear children, don't eat anything healthy at home, just keep eating those hamburgers.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Home
  • Healthy
  • Hamburgers

• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as 'sophisticated,' 'desirable,' 'innovative,' 'friendly,' and 'trustworthy.'

  

  Nirmalya Kumar
  • Chinese
  • Attributes
  • Branding

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

  

  Anthony Standen
  • Insight
  • Statistics
  • Reliable