Quotes About Statistics

#1. I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics ...

Ashley Cole

#2. Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture ...

H.G.Wells

#3. 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Ron DeLegge II

#4. If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Alan K. Simpson

#5. I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

Mark Messier

#6. Every lateness give us a staggering statistics in negative economic effect

Sunday Adelaja

#7. A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#9. When people use statistics, in 72% of cases, they've made them up on the spur of the moment. Katrine Bratt

Jo Nesbo

#10. There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.

Ben Goldacre

#11. Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

Zig Ziglar

#12. Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.

Bill Gates

#13. When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

Rand Paul

#14. Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

#15. Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...

Dale Spender

#16. I read somewhere that luck is not blind, just illiterate. Luck, I mused, is a palliative for those who don't know probability and statistics.

Orhan Pamuk

#17. The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril ... It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Winston Churchill

#18. Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#19. I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

Fernando Torres

#20. I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.

Leonard Mlodinow

#21. I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

Robert Sternberg

#22. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

Michael Lewis

#23. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.

Farshad Asl

#24. He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

#25. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,

Charles Wheelan

#26. We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#27. What makes him successful is the way that he analyzes information. He is not just hunting for patterns. Instead, Bob combines his knowledge of statistics with his knowledge of basketball in order to identify meaningful relationships in the data.

Nate Silver

#28. I always thought that explained it: the romance is a reaction from the algebra. I never knew a person connected with mathematics or astronomy or statistics, or any of those exact things, who didn't have a crazy streak in 'em SOMEwhere.

Booth Tarkington

#29. I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

Mark Twain

#30. Its important not to focus so much on the statistics, but [on people's] perceptions.

Federico Pena

#31. Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#32. Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Henry Clay

#33. Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.

Richelle Mead

#34. You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

Michael Jackson

#35. The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical philatelists, mere collector of numbers.

Stephen Senn

#36. Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Lauren Stamile

#37. Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Bill James

#38. The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago.

Noam Chomsky

#39. He who says that someone isn't himself is a victim of statistics.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

Thomas Carlyle

#41. I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.

Lars Peter Hansen

#42. Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

Ronald Reagan

#43. The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, What was my name?

Jim Bouton

#44. Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Winston Churchill

#45. There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#46. I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

Winston S. Churchill

#47. Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It

Jerome Groopman

#48. Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Ian Hacking

#49. We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

Martha Gellhorn

#50. After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

Steve Jobs

#51. Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.

Soledad O'Brien

#52. There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#53. For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

Wendell Berry

#54. As the official statistics would have it, if you're a young, single, white student who rents a flat in Liverpool and regularly visits pubs and clubs, the statistical chances of you not having taken an illegal drug in the last year would be slim to none. Conversely,

Max Daly

#55. Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

David Korten

#56. It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Hjalmar Schacht

#57. There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics.

Caitlin Moran

#58. Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.

Benjamin R. Smith

#59. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.

Rita Mae Brown

#60. Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

James A. Garfield

#61. Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

Paul Samuelson

#62. Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

Billy Graham

#63. 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

#64. The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

David Knopfler

#65. Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Chili Davis

#66. In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

Charlotte Gray

#67. It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them.

Charles Wheelan

#68. Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Harry Reasoner

#69. You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

Victoria Azarenka

#70. Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Vin Scully

#71. Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as you want to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as healthy as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let the statistics that someone else created affect you.

Esther Hicks

#72. You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Heinrich Heine

#73. The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

Aleister Crowley

#74. Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Jim Bouton

#75. but statistics requires thinking about many things at once, which is something that System 1 is not designed to do.

Daniel Kahneman

#76. Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data ... to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

Herman Chernoff

#77. No one loves the numbers more than I do, but numbers don't measure everything, especially when it comes to evaluating defense. And in the end, I am going to trust Buck Showalter's eyes more than a set of statistics devised by someone who never played the game.

Tim Kurkjian

#78. There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics

Benjamin Disraeli

#79. There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey.

John Allen Paulos

#80. Quite often, most of us are defined first by our vital statistics - our sex, our height, our weight, the colour of our eyes and then we're defined by our job.

Tom Hiddleston

#81. Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.

Larry McCleary

#82. We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Bruce Babbitt

#83. The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein

#84. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories - in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

Gloria Steinem

#85. When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#86. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

George Carlin

#87. In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.

Barry Glassner

#88. Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious.

Patrick Weekes

#89. 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

#90. Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.

Warren Gatland

#91. Gately's snapped to the fact that people of a certain age and level of like life-experience believe they're immortal: college students and alcoholics/addicts are the worst: they deep-down believe they're exempt from the laws of physics and statistics that ironly govern everybody else.

David Foster Wallace

#92. I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

Michael Schumacher

#93. There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#94. The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is.

Rocky Bridges

#95. And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

Warren Zevon

#96. A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

Morris H. DeGroot

#97. Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Stanley Marcus

#98. I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Arundhati Roy

#99. According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

Conan O'Brien

#100. Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

Jenny Diski