Conclusion Quotes - Page 17

• Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Brave, Doubt, Kindred

  "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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• Sometimes I'll have an end in mind, but it's always false, always corny, just a dumb idea anyone could have, sitting on a barstool. An abstract thesis with no real life inside it. And then I start writing and the writing itself confounds me, taking away the comfort of knowing the end in advance. How is that even possible? Doesn't the conclusion come at the end? How can you begin with one - that seems odd, right?

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Real, Writing, Dumb

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The United States of America are more of a concept than a historically evolved geographical conclusion, compared to European countries. I find this extremely interesting. Europe seems objectively more progressive and more civilized at a time when the U.S. is entering a regressive, oppressive, totalitarian era. You've got racial issues, the endurance of Puritanism, other seriously anachronistic religious fanaticisms, and it's all linked to conservatism. Despite all the unresolved deep-seated problems, the U.S. is still a country where it's less important where you come from than what you do.

  Josephine Meckseper

  Country, Religious, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to structure albums in a pattern, like in a way where there's a motif that runs throughout or some kind of conceit that informs it in a general way. Maybe it's in a harmonic key. I like to go metastructural sometimes, like look at more than the three-minute passage and how that interacts with other pieces. And I've been increasingly interested in false starts and fraudulent beginnings, and things that don't reach their implied conclusions. I take an album and I kind of start moving things around like Jenga.

  Tim Hecker

  Running, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form from a novel and there is no such thing as a true adaptation. You have to adapt to this other thing and do it right. But that voice of the original should somehow still be there, and the original intent should still be there. So if the original writer saw the movie, the writer would say, "Well, that's not what I wrote, but that's what I meant." And if you can do that, I think you've done your job as a screenwriter.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers list assumptions for their conclusions and document all sources. These actions either directly interfere with forming insights or create an environment where insights and discoveries are treated with suspicion because they might lead to errors. They signal to knowledge workers that their job is not to make mistakes. Even if they don't make discoveries, no one can blame them as long as they don't make mistakes.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mistake, Goal, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.

  Angela Corey

  Law Enforcement, Difficult, Homicide

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• I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to heaven then?' And the answer was always, 'Well, everyone gets a chance - meaning at the word of God as it was described to me then. And that didn't sit well with me then. But in times of trouble or discord, it's a great comfort. And it wasn't till I left home that I really came to the conclusion that it didn't make sense to me for many other reasons.

  Brad Pitt

  Home, Heaven, Age

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The New York Times and PBS are gatekeepers of a sort. And they perform that role of gatekeeping with a set of rules and aspirations about where they want to lead their viewers and their readers. They value objective facts, and they attempt to transmit a comprehensive view of the world. And they do have values. And they do lead their viewers and their readers to certain conclusions. But it's different than such monopolies as Apple or Google which are dissecting information into these bits and pieces, which they're then transmitting to people. And it's about clicks.

  Franklin Foer

  People, Google, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's so much worse to regret something you never did. It's often worth running through your fears to their logical conclusion to help disperse them. One footnote - if life has taught me anything it's to trust the shy people. Popularity means a lot of people like you a bit, you have broad appeal. But who wants broad appeal? Interesting people are always a bit niche. Remember what Steven Patrick Morrissey said: "It takes guts to be gentle and kind.".

  John Robins

  Running, Regret, Mean

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• The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However, data only exist about the past. By the time data become conclusive, it is too late to take actions based on those conclusions.

  Clayton Christensen

  Mistake, Past, Action

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to their own conclusions.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Giving, Helping

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago.

  Robert Downey, Sr.

  Country, Leader, Battle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan is still going on. There's no way that's going to end anytime soon. You can complain about it, you can throw rocks at it, but you really have to come to the conclusion that this is a really twisted place sometimes and some stuff you're not going to win.

  Lupe Fiasco

  War, Winning, Complaining

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Even when you expose something, when you have a true believer, that person rejects that proof; he thinks it's just a set-up. We believe what's more convenient for us to believe. We always behave this way. We start with the conclusion, and then we create a body of theories around it. We choose what allows us not to change.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Believe, Thinking, Behave

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  Salmon P. Chase

  President, Kind, Consideration

  Salmon P. Chase (2015). “Inside Lincoln’s Cabinet; The Civil War Diaries Of Salmon P. Chase”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• My radio show is actually the conclusion to my week. Which means there'll be 20% of what's happened to me during those five days, on my show. If I don't do my radio show I actually feel lost! It's like the bookends - the beginning and the end of the week and the whole thing comes together. So for me it is important.

  Jazzie B

  Mean, Important, Together

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• If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Watches, Generations

  "The Trials of Life". Documentary series, 1990.

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• I like to get people talking. I am a provocateur, and I do like getting on Twitter and riling people up. You know what, after a while some sane dialogue and sane conclusions come of that kind of thing.

  Roseanne Barr

  Talking, People, Kind

  "Presidential hopeful Roseanne Barr lays out platform on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  Gary Bauer

  Important, Matter, Candidates

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• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  Bob Beauprez

  Meaningful, Cutting, Growth

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• I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I'd rather work until 6 or 7.

  Benjamin Carson

  Growing Up, Father, Kids

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• When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, Light, People

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• I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  People, Gossip, Annoying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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