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• Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

  Steve Case

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Philosophy

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Needs, Development

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

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• It's amazing how much research has gone into making some of the worst decisions.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Decision, Gone, Worst

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• One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

  John W. Gardner

  Communication, Two, Leader

  JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Most research is a synthesis of problem solving and creativity.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Creativity, Synthesis, Problem

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• One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Conducting, Finished

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• What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

  Jean Piaget

  Teacher, Mentor, Roles

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• From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Views, People, Stuff

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• Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Thoughtful, Creative, Groups

  Philip Zimbardo (2011). “The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil”, p.266, Random House

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• Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

  Peter Sarnak

  Frustrated, Occupation, May

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• We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

  Akio Morita

  Believe, New Products, Market Research

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• Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

  Alan Perlis

  Thinking, Today, Firsts

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• However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.

  H. David Burton

  May, Endeavor, Mathematical

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• Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.

  Paul Samuelson

  War, Two, Mit

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• Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

  Clifford Geertz

  Believe, Writing, Balance

  Clifford GEERTZ (2009). “After the Fact”, p.133, Harvard University Press

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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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• There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grieving, Way, Broads

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal - and of course having a sense of the contours of grief is, I think, truly useful, one has to remember it's not a science, it's an individual reckoning, which science is just trying to help us describe.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Thinking, Risk

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Dream, Grief, Writing

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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• I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.

  David Michod

  Thinking, Two, People

  "Exclusive: Stream ‘The Rover’ score, plus a Q&A with its director and composer". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. June 27, 2014.

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• When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

  Linus Roache

  Giving Up, Integrity, Writing

  "Interview: Linus Roache discusses his ‘Vikings’ King and his ‘Blacklist’ Kingmaker". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 3, 2014.

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• Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

  David D. Burns

  Believe, Apology, Differences

  Source: time.com

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• Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.

  Michael Porter

  Zero, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• After I finished the Atlantic swim I said "never again," but it didn't take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.

  Benoit Lecomte

  Dream, Cancer, Long

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