Quotes About Correlation

#1. I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Vanna Bonta

#3. One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.

Thomas Sowell

#4. There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

Ray Dalio

#5. There is a direct correlation between physical exertion and mental relief.

Sakyong Mipham

#6. There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.

Richard M. Weaver

#7. I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.

Scott Adams

#8. While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.

Malcolm Turnbull

#9. There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Louis Navellier

#11. Inspiration should be in direct correlation to the way you live. It shouldn't be something you strive to become. It should be the reaction to the journey you took to get there.

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#12. I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

Yakov Smirnoff

#13. In the last eight weeks I had experienced two of the three best times of my adult life, assuming all visits to the Museum of Natural History were treated as one event. They had both been with Rosie. Was there a correlation? It was critical to find out.

Graeme Simsion

#14. There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does

Milton Friedman

#15. The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Simone Weil

#16. Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

Steven Pinker

#17. I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Garrett Camp

#18. In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

Bill Gates

#19. There seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

Hans F. Sennholz

#20. They argue for a reverse correlation between human capabilities and happiness. Power

Yuval Noah Harari

#21. Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.

John Cho

#22. But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.

Peter F. Drucker

#23. Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Siri Hustvedt

#24. Now, don't get me wrong, I like men in all shapes and sizes, but let's be honest. There is a direct correlation between the size of the man and the dampness along the seam of my jeans. And this one is producing some serious humidity in my southern hemisphere.

Opal Carew

#25. I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

Norbert Leo Butz

#26. There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering.

Daniel Marques

#28. 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

#29. The correlation of quality of life and cost of energy is huge.

Sam Altman

#30. There is a great correlation between music and images.

Graham Nash

#31. Businessmen must move with the times ... the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

Li Ka-shing

#32. There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.

Steven Pinker

#33. Life wouldn't be easier or not easier. Aren't both generalizations logically impossible? Since there's no correlation, there can be no comparison.

Kobo Abe

#34. I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Laurie Foos

#35. There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Dennis Prager

#36. There is no correlation between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels. Framingham residents who ate the most cholesterol, saturated fat, and total calories actually weighed the least and were the most physically active.

Mark Sisson

#37. happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

Yuval Noah Harari

#38. I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Demetri Martin

#39. As followers of natural science we know nothing of any relation between thoughts and the brain, except as a gross correlation in time and space.

Charles Scott Sherrington

#40. There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other

Steven D. Levitt

#41. Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Olafur Eliasson

#42. Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

Oscar Wilde

#43. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

William Eckhardt

#44. Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.

John Ortberg Jr.

#45. No partnership, for that matter, would have hired me, or anyone remotely like me. Was there ever any correlation between an ability to get into, and out of, Princeton, and a talent for taking financial risk? At

Michael Lewis

#46. One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Felix Frankfurter

#47. Be that as it may, I have been noticing a statistically significant correlation between excessive childhood exposure to radiation and cancers later in life.

Kim Van Alkemade

#48. There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

Carl Lewis

#49. Hebb place the Law of Effect at the synaptic level by proposing a correlation model of synaptic modification similar to that of Hayek (1952). This work was seminal in providing a basis for many subsequent theoretical studies .

Gerald Edelman

#50. Our best medical journals are now brimming with high-profile, rigorous studies that show a stunning correlation between high blood sugar and risk for dementia.

David Perlmutter

#51. There is a correlation between people who attack same-sex marriage and have difficulty maintaining their own.

Barney Frank

#52. There is a correlation between one's estimation of the odds of finding a new lover who is, at the least, of the same standard as they one they're currently in a dead relationship with, and, their attempting to revive a dead relationship.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#53. The burdens I carry on my back are in direct correlation to the weight of my ego.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#54. I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

Jerry Uelsmann

#55. There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck

#56. Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific data in their articles is the occasional chart claiming a poorly understood correlation between atmospheric CO2 and the Earth's temperature.

Walter Cunningham

#57. Something ELSE set your body in motion, sent an executive summary - almost an afterthought - to the homunculus behind your eyes ... that arrogant subroutine that thinks of itself as The person, mistakes correlation for causality, ... and thinks He moved the finger

Peter Watts

#58. In the name of freedom, there has to be a correlation between rights and duties, by which every person is called to assume responsibility for his or her choices, made as a consequence of entering into relations with others.

Pope Benedict XVI

#59. When the world changes, correlation goes away ... Causals are what endure.

Geoffrey Nunberg

#60. I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

Moby

#61. Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

Owen Wilson

#62. A lot of people don't make the correlation between acting and modeling, they think of them as two separate things. But I really believe that a model is an actress.

Michael Flutie

#63. And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Lois Greiman

#64. Studies conducted around the world have shown a close correlation between materialist values, depression, and substance abuse.

Jeremy Rifkin

#65. I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.

Loretta Napoleoni

#66. [There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption
not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.

Julian Sanchez

#67. All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Thomas Sowell

#68. A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.

Charles Darwin

#69. There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

David Sedaris

#70. I'm the eldest of six kids, and I think that may have some significance. I think there's some correlation between maybe being the eldest and wanting to blaze a trail. I think that probably helps in some way.

Harry West

#71. The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Michael Pollan

#72. People are attracted to confident people, and there is a direct correlation between confidence and respectful curiosity.

Jeremie Kubicek

#73. There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

Andy Stanley

#74. There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Susan Cain

#75. And the longer she holds out, the more you want it, and the more you want it, the blinder you get. There is a direct correlation, you know, between a stiff dick and blind stupidity.

Sandra Brown

#76. There's no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it.

Seth Godin

#77. There really is no correlation between age and one's bank balance. I've met wealthy boys and broke men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#78. There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

Austin Scarlett

#79. There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

Andrea Jung

#80. There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person counts as loss his own righteousness and lays hold by faith of the righteousness of Christ, the more he'll be motivated to live and work for Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#81. But to measure cause and effect ... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for a cause. In the 1990s the stork population of Germany increased and the German at-home birth rate rose as well. Shall we credit storks for airlifting the babies?

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#82. It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.

Sean Stephenson

#83. There's no correlation between what the public likes and what I'm after. I'm in a different world.

Woody Allen

#84. You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

Marc Racicot

#85. There has always been a correlation between money and art.

Simon De Pury

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Devon McDonald

#87. Hence if man goes on selecting, and thus augmenting, any peculiarity, he will almost certainly modify unintentionally other parts of the structure, owing to the mysterious laws of correlation.

Charles Darwin

#88. After initial needs are met-enough food, shelter, comfort-there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

Geneen Roth

#89. In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.

Theodore Beale

#90. There was a direct correlation between how nervous I was and how many dumb jokes I made.

Ransom Riggs

#91. Don't confuse correlation and causation. Almost all great records eventually dwindle ...

Charlie Munger

#92. There is a correlation between the severity of a person's moods and a lack of self-knowledge.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#93. There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.

Erol Alkan

#94. I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#95. My inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.

Ann Aguirre

#96. An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Stacy Schiff

#97. Recently I reviewed the history of many missionaries and found a powerful correlation between exceptional missionaries and mothers who chose to remain home, often at great financial and personal sacrifice ... They reflect honor to mothers who sacrificed to remain home for their children's benefit.

Richard G. Scott

#98. You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#99. I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

Paul Simon

#100. However, correlation does not necessarily imply causation. The fact that people tend to carry umbrellas when it rains creates a high correlation between umbrella carrying and rain showers. However, it is obvious that choosing to carry an umbrella does not cause rainfall.

Eugene Soltes