Representative Sample Quotes

#1. If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Nate Silver

#2. As you consider the next question, please assume that Steve was selected at random from a representative sample:

Daniel Kahneman

#3. The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

Mo Ibrahim

#4. I can't say I don't like acting, but I can't imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

Maria Sharapova

#5. We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who'd chewed their lives and spat the remnants out.

Jackie French

#6. I like the church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowled churchman be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah ...

Anjem Choudary

#8. Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism.

Aldo Leopold

#9. The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

Walter Lippmann

#10. Your brother is hilarious! And possibly gayEntangled by Cat Clarke

Cat Clarke

#11. Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Kristin Hannah

#12. The 'fairy-story' is really an adult genre, and one for which a starving audience exists.

J.R.R. Tolkien