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strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers. Charles Caleb Colton
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
statistics observation application
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. Charles Dickens
statistics probability
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities. Alan Greenspan
statistics firsts
Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences. Edmond de Goncourt
statistics ends scissors
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. David Hockney
statistics computer program
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. Alan Kay
statistics life-is uncertain
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company. Arthur Eddington
statistics theory results
It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
statistics eyeballs rely
When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation. Arthur C. Clarke
statistics possibility refutation
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
superstitions way bluffs
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. Carl Sagan
superstitions looks belief
I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition. Edward Gibbon
superstitions tribes primitive
Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Bill Maher
superstitions different submission
Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with. Blaise Pascal
superstitions materialism
Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism. Baha'u'llah
superstitions
Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear. Baruch Spinoza
superstitions belief our-time
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none. Celia Green
superstitions worst tolerable
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. Doris Lessing
superstitions belief anarchist
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. Andre Malraux