Factors Quotes - Page 29

• The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

  Alison Gopnik

  Way, Influence, Experiments

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• Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

  Al Gore

  Girl, Rights, Point Break

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - is a big factor.

  Al Gore

  House, Perception, Climate

  "Al Gore: 'The message still has to be about the reality we're facing'". Interview with Brad Plumer, www.washingtonpost.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  Sam Harris

  Impact, World, Morality

  "The Moral Landscape : Thinking About Human Values in Universal Terms" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Success is the only motivational factor that a boy with character needs.

  Woody Hayes

  Character, Boys, Needs

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• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  Seamus Heaney

  Scotland, Speech, Speak

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• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Hans Hofmann: With Selected Writings by the Artist". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15, 1963.

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Feelings, Determined, Family Relationship

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• I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Political, President, Unemployment

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• By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, People, Accountability

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• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Novelty, Being A Woman, Conscious

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• My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Attitude, War, Mean

  "Suu Kyi gives Nobel speech in Norway, 21 years later". Interview with Christiane Amanpour, edition.cnn.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Even before smart phones and the Internet, we had many ways to distract our selves. Now that's compounded by a factor of trillions.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Smart, Phones, Self

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• Clubs are so lame. Nobody even dances at these clubs. They stand around and get drunk and they schmooze. There is no enjoyment factor.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Nightlife, Drunk, Lame

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

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• The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.

  Ang Lee

  Genuineness

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• The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

  Ang Lee

  Men, Symbolic Meaning, Mysterious

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Puppets, Want

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• Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

  James Levine

  Orchestra, Gestures, Delusion

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• I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

  Leona Lewis

  Believe, Careers, Platforms

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

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• Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Funny, Money, Humor

  "Gideon Planish". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1943.

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• Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Social Unrest, Done

  "Ann Coulter, the pin-up model" by Elana Schor, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

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• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  John Lydon

  Writing, People, Competition

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• Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

  Marya Mannes

  Successful, Arrogance, Use

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Running, Inspiration

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