Statistics And Numbers Quotes

#1. Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Brendan Rodgers

#2. As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

X.J. Kennedy

#3. If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.

Rod Stewart

#5. It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.

Virginia Woolf

#6. 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

#7. Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

Joan Blades

#8. 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

#9. Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

#10. The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Keith Devlin

#11. If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

Edward R. Tufte

#12. If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Baron De Montesquieu

#13. 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

#14. I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

Rona Barrett

#15. 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

#16. 99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Ron DeLegge II

#17. It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Robert Hooke

#18. As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is.

Henry Rosovsky

#19. I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Wallace Thurman

#20. The statistics requested respecting the number of crimes that have been solved by tracing the firearm back to the registered owner are not kept at this time and are therefore not available.

Herb Gray

#21. If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.

Tracy Morgan

#22. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Kahlil Gibran

#23. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises

#24. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Ireland

#25. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Neil Gaiman

#26. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Edward Tufte

#28. You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.

Scarlett Johansson

#29. If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

Marianne Williamson

#30. Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.

Joe Torre

#31. I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

Koren Zailckas

#32. children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.

Glenn Meade

#33. The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Jeff Olson

#34. I think it can be really powerful, and one of the reasons I love making films is I do feel they can reach beyond the statistics and the numbers and the complexities of a particular issue and really highlight the humanity in a way that an article or newspaper story might not be able to do.

Rory Kennedy

#35. In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.

Gunter Grass

#36. I felt determined and strong, but sick and weak all at once.

Paige Harbison

#37. The outcome is what you put in.

Jessica Aguilar

#38. When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost always wrong.

Cassandra Clare