Factor Quotes

#1. Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

Alison Sweeney

#2. Never let a day be your control factor

Sunday Adelaja

#3. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross

#4. I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.

Shayne Ward

#5. Balance The Stress Factor The Beauty of Mental Space Emotional Intelligence Take A Breath Negative Emotions Time and Priorities Boundaries A Culture of Wellness

Sharon Salzberg

#6. Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

Henry Blackaby

#7. Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

Andrew Bird

#8. The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Barbara Tuchman

#9. For one hour a day, Lucifer took a break from his surveillance to indulge a guilty pleasure: drinking a tall, icy glass of Schweppes ginger ale and watching The O'Reilly Factor.

Robert Kroese

#10. The strongest factor in conditioning is sex, in the sense that the first thing that a person is really taught is whether they are male or female.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I'm now wearing suits on stage, so I've kinda stepped up my game as far as image. Which I have to admit is kind of a pain the butt, but it's fun. It gives you a certain amount of confidence to walk on stage and look nice, but I can't say that I'm totally buying into the whole image factor.

Christopher Cross

#12. The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination, produces love. Passion is the impelling factor, imagination the disturbing factor; and the disturbance of passion by imagination produces love.

Jack London

#13. Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late.

Andre Maurois

#14. Fucking cracker," Alvarado hissed as he was shoved into the patrol car.
"Aw, that's discrimination, right there." I feigned hurt. "See, I see you as scumbag first, Alvarado. Or dick-cheese. Scumsucking pedophile. Asshole. The fact that you're Hispanic doesn't even factor into it.

Dani Alexander

#15. The Jesus Factor it's called, instant resurrection and a second cumming.

Gillibran Brown

#16. After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.

Olly Murs

#17. The third factor is the natural predisposition of bureaucracies, both governmental and private, to exploit secrecy to whatever degree they are licensed to do so, and in this administration they're given virtually carte blanche.

Ted Gup

#18. The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

Robert Webb

#19. Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

Eric Hoffer

#20. Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies.

Charles Platt

#21. I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

Robyn Davidson

#22. The factor that makes people extremely vulnerable to enslavement is the lack of the rule of law.

Kevin Bales

#23. The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

John Irving

#24. The Male Factor is the singularly best business book for women I've read in years. This well-researched yet thoroughly readable book is rich with rare insights into how men really see women in the workplace-and how with a few simple adjustments you can even the playing field.

Lois P Frankel

#25. Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

#26. Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

Dalai Lama

#27. I've worked on some movies that get put in the horror shelf on the video stores, but they're really structurally like mysteries, and not so dependent on the gore factor, so they really don't need to be R-rated movies.

Ehren Kruger

#28. The universe expanded by a factor of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in .00000000000000000000000000000000001 second. It was as if a coin 1 centimeter in diameter suddenly blew up to ten million times the width of the Milky Way.

Stephen Hawking

#29. We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

Skitch Henderson

#30. And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

Nobuo Uematsu

#31. I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.

Olly Murs

#32. High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.

Joel Fuhrman

#33. I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.

Daryn Kagan

#34. Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Jimmy Dean

#35. I don't know how 'X Factor' works. I was only there as a guest judge for a day. But I watched 'The Voice' a lot; I respected how it came across on TV, and I love the freedom we get as coaches to do what we want.

Rita Ora

#36. A key factor is to do training that is fun.

Bill Toomey

#37. Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Bobby Ray Inman

#38. Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.

Steve McConnell

#39. Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Fethullah Gulen

#40. As regards the extraordinary prizes, the element of luck is the determining factor.

Theodore Roosevelt

#41. In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

Kenneth Grant

#42. First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive.

Barry Richards

#43. A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just ... overwhelms you.

Sophie Kinsella

#44. Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Henry Petroski

#45. One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

Joe Hyams

#46. [a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

Helene Deutsch

#47. Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

Edmund Hillary

#48. And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.

Robert Sternberg

#49. Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Edsger Dijkstra

#50. The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you to make the whole of mathematics more intellectual.

Conrad Wolfram

#52. Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

Tony La Russa

#53. We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' either. I think it's awful, exploitative and vulgar.

Terry Wogan

#54. I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.

Ric Flair

#55. You know, I know, all of us know that the time factor is the vital consideration - and vital is the correct meaning of the term - of our national defense program; that we must never be caught in the same situation we found ourselves in 1917.

George C. Marshall

#56. Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#57. I think there's a lot of different things that factor into playing good defense, and you just can't say, "All right, if we just hold on to the ball long enough, we're going to play good defense."

Chip Kelly

#58. Psychology, trading tactics, and money management are the three pillars of success, but there is the fourth factor that ties them together. That factor - which integrates all others - is record-keeping.

Anonymous

#59. The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

Ang Lee

#60. Bus factor (noun): the number of people that need to get hit by a bus before your project is completely doomed.

Brian W. Fitzpatrick

#61. It now appears most of us need about 5,000 units a day if we avoid the sun. The government was off by a factor of ten; an ,i>"order-of-magnitude error.",/i> Mistakes of this scale are rare in medicine.

John Cannell

#62. Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

Frederick Lenz

#63. Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

Zafrullah Chowdhury

#64. Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.

Vincent Nichols

#65. How I preened at that, shamefully so in memory for, while I would have been put off by you calling me "hot" or a "babe" at my age, still having "it" - the illusive "it" factor that transcended looks or age was plausible.

From Prey. Middle-Aged Boys&Girls

Diane Bracuk

#66. The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

Kim Il-sung

#67. Love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

Nora Roberts

#68. Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

Nick Cave

#69. I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.

Gary Barlow

#70. I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Scott Rudin

#71. Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one's infection.

Aysha Taryam

#72. Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.

Jan Mckingley Hilado

#73. Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

James Cameron

#74. I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

Jim Capaldi

#75. The like factor is a great thing. Love cannot burn constantly. It's very hard for it to be so intense. But it's wonderful.

Pierce Brosnan

#76. I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off ... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.

Natalie Massenet

#77. The critical factor of a problem is the element that has to be changed before anything else can be changed.

Peter Drucker

#78. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.

Sakyong Mipham

#79. I'm not sure time is always a factor when emotions are concerned . - Jake Morgan

M.M. Bordeaux

#80. Kezia could've guessed from the soapy scent wafting over her shoulder. Soap and something else. The XY factor that made some men smell so good you just wanted to lick the nearest inch of available skin.

Tracey Alvarez

#81. Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Cynthia Kenyon

#82. Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Hill

#83. This stigma associated with drug use
the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pathetic
has contributed to the escalation of use and has hampered treatment more than any single other factor.

David Sheff

#84. Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.

Bill Walsh

#85. Always remember ... How you handle obstacles will always be a key factor in determining your ability to achieve success.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#86. Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Sivananda

#87. For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After nearly thirty years of climbing, I still love to do it whenever possible!

Lynn Hill

#88. Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

Leonard Woodcock

#89. I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

Cameron Mackintosh

#90. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.

Antony Flew

#91. I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another ... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me ... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

Skrillex

#92. Like many people who lasted any length of time in the rescue professions, she'd worn out the 'if' factor pretty quickly. You were where you were. You went where you went. You did what you could. Mostly, people were better off after you showed up than before.

Nevada Barr

#93. For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important
factor, not the strength of the legs.

Toshitsugu Takamatsu

#94. You have to factor in the human propensity for simplification, Sverl, and for their inability to believe in their own demise and unimportance. It's the impulse behind the religions -

Neal Asher

#95. Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.

Ludwig Von Mises

#96. Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Joseph Pulitzer

#97. The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

Erma Bombeck

#98. The essential factor of military success is speed, that is taking advantage of others' unpreparedness or lack of foresight, their failure to catch up, going by routes they do not expect, attacking where they are not on guard. This you cannot accomplish with hesitation.

Sun Tzu

#99. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

Ramit Sethi

#100. Your state of mind is the most important factor in the outcome of your life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour