Coefficients Quotes

#1. If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

Ronald Fisher

#2. When your car is about to go off a cliff, it's a weird time to be thinking about gas mileage and drag coefficients; better to take the right control action - look out the window and steer or use the brake until you're back on course.

Michael Bolton

#3. Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

Thomas McGuane

#4. No wild beasts are so deadly to humans as most Christians are to each other.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#5. Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Rumi

#6. ...every time you lose, you die a little, inside. Not all your organs...maybe just your liver.

George Allen

#7. Harry and Ron slouched into the Great Hall in states of deepest gloom, Hermione behind them, wearing a well-you-did-break-school-rules sort of expression.

J.K. Rowling

#8. I grew up around fashion - my mom was an editor for Vogue. Compared to the music industry, though, I'd say [fashion] is a little bit more disorganized. But it's exciting for me because, when you're a performer, there is a fashion element.

Zachary Cole Smith

#9. The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances ... a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.

Ernst Haas

#10. When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

Blake Shelton

#11. We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#12. I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

Caroline Leavitt