Surveys Quotes

• Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

  Stephen Hawking

  People, Population, World

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• Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

  Epictetus

  Life, Steps, Looks

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• Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

  Andrew Greeley

  Engagement, Behavior, Humans

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• It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

  Helen Fielding

  Goal, Doe, Wealth

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.16, Pan Macmillan

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• A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  George Santayana

  Country, 4th Of July, Knowledge

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress". Book by George Santayana, Chapter VII: Patriotism, 1905.

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• Surveys show that surveys never lie.

  Natalie Angier

  Lying, Data, Never Lie

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.386, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Doe, Goes On, Useless

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• A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.

  Craig Kilborn

  Drinking, College, Phones

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• A new survey out says 64 percent of Americans own a smartphone. Which is interesting because in a related survey, 100 percent of smart phones say they own an American.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Smart, Phones, Interesting

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• USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Math, Science

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• Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Average, Funeral

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• We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

  William McNamara

  Reflection, Painter, Take Time

  William McNamara (1962). “The art of being human”

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• I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, Marketing, Fancy

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.51, Ballantine Books

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• A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

  Takeda Shingen

  Men, Important, Ends

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• According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

  Jay Leno

  Liars, Eye, Funny Relationship

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• Time, that takes survey of all the world,
  Must have a stop.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, World, Stop Time

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [81]

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• The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.

  Herbert Spencer

  Past, Majority, Facts

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.5

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• Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivation, Self, Waiting

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.169, Ballantine Books

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Greatest Fear, Average, People

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

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• A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
  With the same spirit that its author writ:
  Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
  Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Perfect, Judging

  Alexander Pope (1804). “A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author”, p.105

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• To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

  Lin Yutang

  Past, Light, Understanding

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

  Chevy Chase

  Filled Out, May, Facts

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• A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

  Banksy

  Males, Found, Overweight

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• When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Long, Curiosity, Demand

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.5

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