Top 26 Quotes About Gathering Data
#1. Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.
Missy Mazzoli
#2. Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.
Arundhati Roy
#3. I'm worried about privacy - the companies out there gathering data on us, the stuff we do on Twitter, the publicly scrapeable stuff on Facebook. It's amazing how much data there is out there on us. I'm worried that it can be abused and will be abused.
Michael Arrington
#4. Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
Peter Medawar
#5. Measure what you can, evaluate what you measure, and appreciate that you cannot measure the vast majority of what you do. And at least every once in a while, make time to take a step back and think about what you are doing.
Ed Catmull
#6. There seemed to be too much gathering of data for their own sake without any thought of practical application - an inevitable development in a statistical and evaluation office unless sternly controlled.
Gordon W. Prange
#7. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#8. Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.
Robert Kegan
#9. Hey, if you don't want to tell me, don't. But I can tell when you lie."
Ok, that was super creepy. "You can?"
He smiled grimly down at the dirty dishwater. "Nope. But see? You fell for it anyway. Careful, or I'll read your mind with my incredible vampire superpowers.
Rachel Caine
#10. I'm disciplined about writing. I get up every day knowing I have to produce work. I'm less concerned about other aspects of the job, such as the prizes and promotions. Promoting my work can be awkward, unless I feel sociable enough. Prizes encourage me to work harder on my next project.
Sefi Atta
#11. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Martin Luther
#12. Before gathering any data, one must have concepts about the data being gathered. These are conceptual categories, meanings, and relationships that are all pre-empirical. They are purely theoretical. Imagine
Steve Patterson
#13. When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.
Rose Tremain
#14. An unpredictable, faithful and objective hazard seems to have systematically singled out my life to make what are normally uneventful incidents violent, phenomenal and memorable.
Salvador Dali
#15. I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
Denis Johnson
#17. The foundation of data gathering is built on asking questions. Never limit the number of hows, whats, wheres, whens, whys and whos, as you are conducting an investigation. A good researcher knows that there will always be more questions than answers.
Karl Pippart III
#18. Change is a more complicated process involving brain integration than is data gathering.
Jeanne Segal
#19. If the staff does not begin with a discussion on values and instead begins by gathering and analyzing data, the process becomes head-driven. This will lead to a tendency to rationalize and assign blame:
Linda Dier
#20. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
Vince Lombardi
#21. The secret to a fulfilled life is to engage in more beginnings than endings. Explore. Discover. Experience.
Jason Harvey
#22. Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.
Andrei Cherny
#23. What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#24. Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
Michael Polanyi
#25. But even those people, cops, lawyers, doctors, learned what they learned from the aftermath. They weren't there when the killer tore at his victim; they didn't smell the scent of evil; they didn't hear the cries to heaven for something, someone, to intervene.
Anne Rice
#26. The early evangelists recognized they could help the Jesus story make sense if Jesus was seen as someone who was chosen to appease the wrath of God - hence, the 'anointed one' who could do what no one else could do..
Doug Pagitt
