Statistical Literacy Quotes

#1. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

Emma Thompson

#2. Perhaps she just needed to remind herself more often how that gold was still floating above her head, it's minuscule particles visible only when pierced by a certain light.

Francesca Marciano

#3. Music may be his passion
but this, right here, was his dream.

Rachel Harris

#4. Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else.

Theo James

#5. and here is where unsentimental history and statistical literacy can change our view of modernity, for they show that nostalgia for a peaceable past is the biggest delusion of all

Steven Pinker

#6. On three great bonds of love do all cultures depend: the love between man and woman in marriage; the love between a mother and her child; and the camaraderie among men, a bond that used to be strong enough to move mountains. The first two have suffered greatly; the third has almost ceased to exist.

Anthony M. Esolen

#7. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Rumi

#8. Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Marge Piercy

#9. Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence

Hans Christian Andersen

#10. If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

Vaughn Monroe

#11. I've been very lucky to work with many amazing animators and directors who can interpret and extend the music I make. When it's done well, it can create extra meaning and new context for the song.

Gotye

#12. 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

#13. To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

Peter Seymour

#15. Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.

Hyman Minsky

#16. Life is sort of like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, if you know what I mean. Some days are too big. Some days are much too small. But today was one of those rare days that was just right.

Leila Sales

#17. Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice.

Nabil N. Jamal