Factors Quotes - Page 17

• I think any relationship that is normal - I mean, there's no normal relationship, but in terms of a flawed relationship, there's always gonna be awkward moments within that because you're addressing things that the world is throwing at you, whether that's distance or whether that's where this is going or other people and past relationships, all these factors.

  Imogen Poots

  Distance, Mean, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.

  Regina E. Dugan

  Needs, Nerves, Problem

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• One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

  Randy Pausch

  Real, Educational, Keys

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• Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Want

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• War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fog, Three

  On War bk. 1, ch. 3 (1832 - 1834).

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• The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Gun, Men, Rifles

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: African game trails”

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• The legendary statistical consultant W. Edwards Deming, . . . has called the system by which merit is appraised and rewarded 'the most powerful inhibitor to quality and productivity in the Western world' . . . it is simply unfair to the extent that employees are held responsible for what are, in reality, systemic factors that are beyond their control.

  Alfie Kohn

  Powerful, Reality, Quality

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.145, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

  John Wooden

  Littles, Individual, Harder

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• Love is the X-factor in healing!

  Paul Solomon

  Healing, Love Is

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• Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

  Liz Miller

  Anxiety, Causes, Uncertainty

  Liz Miller (2010). “Mood Mapping: Plot your way to emotional health and happiness”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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• When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. And if I have a chance to matter to the growth and hopes and wishes of little girls, that's something I can't take lightly. So I do factor them in when I'm thinking about what to wear, and what to say, and whether or not to go out to bars even thought I'm not twenty-one.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Thinking, Years

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• We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.

  Gene Kranz

  Team, Moon, Technology

  "Space Lifeguard: An Interview with Gene Kranz". Interview with Andrew Chaikin, web.archive.org. April 11, 2000.

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• Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Artist, Want, Auditions

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• The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.

  David O. McKay

  Loyalty, Home, Soul

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• There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Caring, Compassion

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• Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  People, Half Time, Four

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• Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Behavior

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• The power of intention is a critical factor in all areas of life. Simply by intending to create synchronicity in your life, you can nurture that result.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intention, Synchronicity, Results

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• If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

  William Moulton Marston

  Defeat, Ability, Draws

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Prayer, Leader, Way

  Henry Blackaby, Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2011). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.221, B&H Publishing Group

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• I desire to call attention to the fact that the united, well ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. It has been aptly said that "Out of the homes of America will come the future citizens of America, and only as those homes are what they should be will this nation be what it should be."

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, Desire

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• One of the most important features of our economic resources is their scarcity: land, labor, and capital goods factors are all scarce, and may all be put to various possible uses. The free market uses them 'productively' because the producers are guided, on the market, to produce what the consumers most need: automobiles, for example, rather than buggies.

  Murray Rothbard

  Land, Important, Example

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• In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to work, you will create jobs. It not only fails to factor in the obvious deterrent that extended benefits have on their recipients but also falsely assumes that transferring money from one pocket to the next generates more spending - by some mythical multiple factor, no less. Back on planet Earth, studies reveal that extending unemployment benefits results in more unemployment.

  David Limbaugh

  Jobs, Compassion, Names

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• Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Skills, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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