Information Quotes - Page 19

• There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective:
  1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand.
  2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning.
  3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.

  Sheila Heen

  Appreciation, Organization, Coaching

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• Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?

  Sheila Heen

  People, Kind, Invisible

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• I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

  David Duchovny

  Mind, Kind, Mystery

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• Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

  Paul Samuelson

  Computer, Macroeconomics, Incapable

  Interview with Conor Clarke, www.theatlantic.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Thinking, Blood

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.145, Algora Publishing

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• It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

  William Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Exercise, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

  Jean Baudrillard

  Innovation, Entropy, Staging

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• For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Generations, Use

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Teamwork, Football, Real

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I love the fact that in the cancer universe you have a lot of money going towards research, but this is about cancer support. It allows people to receive information to facilitate their healing. It's a revelation and just phenomenal.

  Billy Zane

  Cancer, Healing, People

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they'll take it.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Comedy makes everything accessible.  Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill.  What's fun about it?  Nothing.  And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything's going to connect. 

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Pills, News

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Editors, Information Flow

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.

  Harold Evans

  People, News, Television

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, News, World

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

  Harold Evans

  Reading, Important, One Day

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.

  Harold Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It's irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That "bad person" at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other "bad person" at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as "bad" or "good."

  David D. Burns

  Father, Kids, Errors

  Source: time.com

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• I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Heaven, Chinese

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.215

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• The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Lying, Hands, Leader

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Hands, Ideas, Secret

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Satisfaction, Essentials

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn't mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Mean, Support

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Exercise, Decision, Individual

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.254, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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