Factors Quotes

• I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Believe, Heart

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• The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

  Tim Ferriss

  Entrepreneur, Mets, Unifying

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• Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

  James Henry Breasted

  Progress, Important, Society

  James Henry Breasted (1938). “The Conquest of Civilization”

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• The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Independent, Self

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• Fear is not a motivating factor. You might be able to get a little bit more out of someone in the short term, but you will completely erode your business and your culture in the long term. You're going to lose all your good people. You're not going to have people tell you the truth, and it becomes the tradition.

  Mindy Grossman

  Long, People, Culture

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• The worth of a person’s thought is measured not by the quantity but by the quality of the support that it has got and this quality is defined by a single factor, which is only people’s human character.

  Anuj

  Character, People, Support

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• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Three, Moral

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• Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Men, Eight

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• Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Thinking, Issues, Violence

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• I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

  Roald Amundsen

  Taken, Order, People

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Character, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.130, Courier Corporation

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• The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Thinking, Important

  Norman Vincent Peale (1977). “The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...”, Hallmark Cards

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• In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

  Gifford Pinchot

  Safety, World, Welfare

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• Your spiritual journey and your spiritual welfare are really dependent on two primary factors: One, your ability to meditate and two, your ability to give of yourself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Spiritual, Yoga

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• There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

  Mark Hunt

  Stress, Mma, Getting Older

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• When someone is fearless, when pain isn't a factor, it's impossible to break his spirit.

  Chuck Liddell

  Pain, Mma, Fearless

  Chuck Liddell, Chad Millman (2008). “Iceman: My Fighting Life”, p.38, Penguin

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• There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.

  Gwen Ifill

  Kids, Income, Segregation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

  Belle S. Spafford

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Belle S. Spafford (1971). “Women in today's world”

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• It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

  Randy Schekman

  Impact, Average, Quality

  "How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science" by Randy Schekman, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2013.

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• The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others.

  Charles Jennings

  Technology, Deployment, Support

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• This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Top Down, Keys, Brain

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• Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

  Gordon Brown

  Idols, People, Chance

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• Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Book, Months, Research

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• Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

  Nick Cave

  Mean, Sound, Birth

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• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Land, Support, Emigration

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