Get The Facts Quotes

#1. What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.

Jeremy Scahill

#2. I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people.

Mary Harris Jones

#3. get the facts or the facts will get you.

Thomas Fuller

#4. No, she says the only way to get the facts is to ask the questions

Colleen Hoover

#5. Okay, take a deep breath, I told myself. Don't go all hormonal. Get the facts straight. Have a mental doughnut.

Janet Evanovich

#6. Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

E.B. White

#7. If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.

Bob Kane

#8. The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

Alfred P. Sloan

#9. Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

Brian Tracy

#10. Always get the facts first. You can distort them later.

Jill Shalvis

#11. Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.

Annie Leonard

#12. It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.

Donna McKechnie

#13. We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

Warren Buffett

#14. History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed.

Amy Waldman

#15. For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

Nigel Hamilton

#16. First get the facts, you can distort them later

Mark Twain

#17. First get the facts. Then you can distort them all you want. - Mark Twain

Chloe Neill

#18. Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Dale Carnegie

#19. I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

Bernard Baruch

#20. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

John H. Alexander

#21. I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

John Taliaferro

#22. It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard P. Feynman

#23. I like the fact that now my understanding for entertainment and the entertainment business is completely different from what it was when I first came in. I get the business side of it.

Kevin Hart

#24. One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

Norman Vincent Peale

#25. I try to read all news sources - not just CNN or FOX, but worldwide papers and journals, to get opinions from every end of the spectrum - and then I like to try to find out the cut and dried facts - and go from there.

Eric Stoltz

#26. I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

Aaron Copland

#27. Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

Albert Einstein

#28. Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!

Charlotte Mason

#29. People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Willie Geist

#30. It's a well-known fact. It's well known at the organic level, like a lot of other well-known facts which overrule the observations of the senses. This is because if people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done.*

Terry Pratchett

#31. I ride five days out of the week. In fact, I take my bike as much as I can, especially with L.A. traffic. You want to get in and out, all the time.

Emilio Rivera

#32. There's only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.

Kevin O'Leary

#33. I had to get back to dealing with facts. One fact was that something bizarre was going on, but I'd be far more likely to find an explanation in a modern book on string theory than in an ancient tome on the spirit world.

Hilary Duff

#34. To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

#35. The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Mark Twight

#36. I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

Farley Mowat

#37. I just think that your private life is private. What I do is obviously public, I get that. I get the fact that people are interested. I'm interested in a lot of people as well. I've just chosen to stay as private as possible.

Derek Jeter

#38. Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Jack McDevitt

#39. Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings

#40. In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

John Edgar Wideman

#41. Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

George Bernard Shaw

#42. What I use from my own life is not the facts, it's the emotion. It's how I felt about something. It has nothing to do with facts at all. You can get those anywhere. It's the feelings of childhood that you need to know.

Judy Delton

#43. Expose every belief to the light of reason, discourse, facts, scientific observations; question everything, be sceptical because this is the only chance at life you will ever get.

James Randi

#44. There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.

Luis Suarez

#45. I spent quite a lot of time pissing off my friends because I could get girls with a British accent, despite the fact that I was tubby and, like, not very cool.

Marcus Mumford

#46. However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.

Rachel Ward

#47. Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

Ian P. Griffin

#48. Accept the fact that you'll never get it all done, and begin to live more fully in the only moment you have ... Now.

Wayne Dyer

#49. As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

Barry Sternlicht

#50. Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Marlo Thomas

#51. Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting.

Ben Huh

#52. Don't confuse stories with facts. ...When you generate stories in the blink of an eye, you can get so caught up in the moment the you begin to believe your stories are facts.

Kerry Patterson

#53. Here in the UK the audience immediately reacts and they get the fact that: "What would be the most annoying thing in the world?" A Chesney Hawkes alarm clock!

Duncan Jones

#54. You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.

Benjamin Franklin

#55. We ask the following questions before we listen to gossip: What is your reason for telling me this? Where did you get your information? Have you gone directly to the source? Have you personally checked out all the facts? Can I quote you if I check this out?2

Neil T. Anderson

#56. I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.

Walter Mosley

#57. It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.

James Cameron

#58. I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Heinrich Himmler

#59. I have a tendency to talk extremely fast ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out.

Shailene Woodley

#60. I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents ... I try to get inside my stories.

Ben Mezrich

#61. Stop jacking with me, Dad. All I ever wanted was the truth."
"That's the problem. People think if they can add up all the facts, they'll end up with the truth, but that's like sewin' body parts together in the hopes you'll get a man.

Carolee Dean

#62. Facts are important, but the story matters. Poorly presented facts can even get in the way of the story's impact.

Blake Mycoskie

#63. There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

J. Boone

#64. In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing. In April 1948, there were 15 readings in the United States, 12 by Robert Frost. So I claim. The figures are imaginary, but you get the point.

Donald Hall

#65. I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

Dustin Hoffman

#66. Life is filled with opportunities. Be courageous and fulfill your destiny. You were created for a purpose and once you realize your potential, you become unstoppable. Let no one get in the way of you pursuing your dreams.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#67. A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

W. Somerset Maugham

#68. If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself
ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity
before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

Eugene O'Neill

#69. The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.

Samuel James Meltzer

#70. The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.

Patrick Carney

#71. The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#72. You'll never get tired of seeing all of God's exhibits in His great Fairground of the Heavenly City on Earth where you can really learn the facts and the truth about everything the way it really was. How's that for a great Heavenly Fair in Heaven so fair?

David Berg

#73. As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.

Amy Waldman

#74. If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.

Michele Bachmann

#75. Don't get too deep, it leads to over thinking, and over thinking leads to problems that doesn't even exist in the first place.

Jayson Engay

#76. I try to get the basic facts, not the details. The details can be interesting, but they can also distract me into attachment. The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be homes to me. They must be hotel rooms.

David Levithan

#77. Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

Joseph Campbell

#78. Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Nikki Giovanni

#79. You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.

Joe Hill

#80. What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

Varley O'Connor

#81. Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

Lysa TerKeurst

#82. The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it's what you love and what you have to do.

Joan Jett

#83. And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively.

William A. Rusher

#84. What causes misery is always trying to get away from the facts of life, always trying to avoid pain and seek happiness - this sense of ours that there could be lasting security and happiness available to us if we could only do the right thing.

Pema Chodron

#85. The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

Henry Mitchell

#86. Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.

Lawrence Lessig

#87. The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

Tom Heehler

#88. The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

Henry Ford

#89. And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.

John Boehner

#90. The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma ... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

Margaret Thatcher

#91. I don't like facts, because facts get in the way of my feelings.

Kanye West

#92. That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

Vincent Van Gogh

#93. You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

Peter McWilliams

#94. The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

Swami Vivekananda

#95. Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

Lynn Flewelling

#96. It is a popular delusion that the scientific enquirer is under an obligation not to go beyond generalisation of observed facts ... but anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond the facts, rarely get as far.

Thomas Huxley

#97. If you want to get to know somebody you don't ask other people: 'How is she?' You talk to the person herself. And then you don't ask about facts like 'date of birth' or 'profession of parents.' but you talk about essential questions and themes in life.

Angelina Maccarone

#98. Much of economics isn't difficult, or rather, the difficulty is in cooking up arguments to "prove" that commonsense conclusions are wrong. The fact is that many commonsense conclusions are quite correct, and it takes a lot of education to get you to believe different.

Jerry Pournelle

#99. Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever.
Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels.

Florence Nightingale

#100. You're born, you take shit

get out in the world, you take more shit

climb a little higher, take less shit.

till one day you're in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.

Welcome to the layer cake, son.

J.J. Connolly