Quotes About Background Knowledge

#1. The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

Norwood Russell Hanson

#2. Schemata are our necessary instruments for making the surfaces of what we read connect significantly with the background knowledge that is wittheld from immediate conciousness by the limits of short-term memory.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#3. We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be able to communicate effectively with everyone else.

Edward Hirsch

#4. My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the I began investing outside of the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#5. The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.

W. Edwards Deming

#6. With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

James G. Frazer

#7. Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves
or desires.

Jacquetta Hawkes

#8. I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Steven Hatfill

#9. My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

James Broughton

#10. Great moment, unforgettable memory.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. No words are too good for the cutting-room floor, no idea so fine that it cannot be phrased more succinctly.

Merilyn Simonds

#12. Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

Sonia Sotomayor

#13. Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

Steven Moffat

#14. It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Sally Ride

#15. My grandfather used to say the placement of a birthmark was the story of how a person lost the battle in their past life. I guess you got stabbed in the neck. Bet it was a quick death, though.

Colleen Hoover

#16. I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

#17. We must confront this Zionist entity. All ties of all kinds must be severed with this plundering criminal entity, which is supported by America and its weapons, as well as by its own nuclear weapons, the existence of which is well known. It will bring about their own destruction.

Mohammed Morsi

#18. As the father of six children, I want to know that when my wife or I drop our kids off at school they will be safe from predators, crime and violence.

Mike Fitzpatrick

#19. In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

James C. Collins

#20. If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

Richard Driehaus

#21. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

William, Saroyan

#22. I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert

#23. His background and knowledge can't be transplanted overnight, ... I'd make a point that unless you sat on the throne, you don't know what it's like to be king. In reality there are a lot of things that you do and people you influence that other people don't see and that impact is there for the city.

Jeri Ryan

#24. I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.

Missy Mazzoli