Quotes About Implicit Bias

#1. When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

Eric Holder

#2. When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

Eric Ries

#3. Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Find happiness where you can," she said softly. "It's not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you'll be the happiest person alive.

Jackie Sigmund

#5. The trouble is that once people develop an implicit theory, the confirmation bias kicks in and they stop seeing evidence that doesn't fit it.

Carol Tavris

#6. I'm a single guy now and can do what I like. As my agent said, so long as it's not a live man or a dead woman, I'll be fine. And that, hand on heart, is unlikely to happen.

Steve Coogan

#7. History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Edward Gibbon

#8. Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.

Monica O Montgomery

#9. Johanna Mason is naked again and oiling her skin down for a wrestling lesson.

Suzanne Collins

#10. There must occur a time in every man's life when the idea of a sudden, irrational death does not frighten him. This shall suffice to cure a lot of his persistent miseries.

Ashfaq Saraf

#11. I eventually want to come back to Canada, to disappear, have nobody know me, and just be a writer and do what I want to do.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#13. Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Gilbert Simondon

#14. If you don't like how others define & label you, then work on your values. Embrace and practice values that you would like to be associated.

Assegid Habtewold

#15. I've been into lots of auditions, and I'm sure I've lost a lot of jobs through that because I'm pretty dreadful at reading.

Sean Bean

#16. The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it.

Noam Chomsky

#17. Whoever we were - and it was not really important what religion we belonged to, whether we wished to wear the veil or not, whether we observed certain religious norms or not - we had become the figment of someone else's dreams.

Azar Nafisi

#18. Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.

Blake Shelton

#19. Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

Peter Drucker