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• In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States. They discovered that the weekly profits of the stores managed by extroverts were 16 percent higher than the profits of those led by introverts—but only when the employees were passive types who tended to do their job without exercising initiative. Introverted leaders had the exact opposite results. When they worked with employees who actively tried to improve work procedures, their stores outperformed those led by extroverts by more than 14 percent.

  Susan Cain

  Jobs, Exercise, Opposites

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• Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Thinking, Perception, Looks

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• ...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Children, Home

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.146, Knopf

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• We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.

  John Woodward

  Business, Creativity, Accountability

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• An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

  John Tukey

  Science, Answers, Statistics

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• To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Time, Men, Long

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.24, Penguin

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• If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Organization, Groups

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• The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Science, Missing

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.

  Steven Weinberg

  Hard Work, Science, Men

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• Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked.

  Bob Dole

  Identity, Immigration, Biometrics

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• Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.

  Jan Hatzius

  Negative, Wealth, Economic

  "Falling stocks dent net worth". www.cnn.com. March 13, 2001.

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• Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.

  Everett C. Olson

  Science, Theory Of Evolution, Development

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• Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Eye, Past, Atoms

  Oeuvres vol. 7, introduction (1812 - 1820)

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• You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.

  Anthony F. C. Wallace

  Hard Work, Writing, Science

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• One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment in the country. About 9.3 percent of the population is now foreign-born [announced by the Census Bureau at over 10 percent a few days later]. What's really surprising is how well distributed those population groups are. Historically, we see new immigrants primarily on the coast and in a few big cities. I think the data are going to show a much wider distribution of the new population groups than we've experienced historically.

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Country, Thinking, Cities

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Soon Enough

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• Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Lying, Self, Fiction

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• There are many who subscribe to the convention that service is a business cost, but our data demonstrates that superior service is an investment that can help drive business growth. Investing in quality talent, and ensuring they have the skills, training and tools that enable them to empathize and actively listen to customers are central to providing consistently excellent service experiences.

  Jim Bush

  Educational, Skills Training, Growth

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• If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

  Robert Pozen

  Motivation, Educational, Order

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• An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

  Aaron Koblin

  Motivation, Powerful, Inspiration

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• We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

  Jenny Beck

  Business, Thinking, Media

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• Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Lying, Ocean, Inspiration

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• When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

  Henry M. Morris

  Bible, Agnostic, Taliban

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• It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses with evidence of non-physical reality. It cannot be done. The five senses; sight,hearing, taste and smell together form a single sensory system whose object of detection is physical reality. This cannot detect non-physical reality. Humankind is beginning to be able to access data the 5 senses cannot provide.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Sight, Smell

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• We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.

  John Dewey

  Science, Reflection, Profound

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