Statistics Quotes · Page 10

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

— William Faulkner

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

— Laraine Day

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

— Margaret Millar

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— David Mitchell

The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail.

— Theo Paphitis

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— Anonymous

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

— Liza Minnelli

The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice.

— Richard Bach

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

— Anthony Standen

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence,…

— James A. Garfield

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

— Kirk Cousins

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it…

— Lady Gaga

“A firm’s income statement may be likened to a bikini—what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.”

— Burton G. Malkiel

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way…

— Brendan Rodgers

I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who…

— Luis Bunuel

In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of…

— Charlotte Gray

Technology and the Internet have created a new set of relationships. It's changed the social fabric of promotion: advertising, dating. Part of…

— Steve Miller

You can never compare a stadium full of people to statistics online ... There's something about seeing people's faces, and it's amazing…

— Lilly Singh

To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and…

— Michael Healy

Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn…

— Randy Alcorn

As a woman, it is so tough to grow your business. People are ready to hear all your creative inputs, but the…

— Lara Dutta

As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of…

— Henry Rosovsky

If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative.…

— Gloria Steinem

Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than…

— Michael Bloomberg

In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career…

— John Templeton

I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of…

— William Sealy Gosset

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Loyalty is dead, the experts proclaim, and the statistics seem to bear them out. On average, U.S. corporations now lose half their…

— Fred Reichheld

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits,…

— Jasper Fforde

The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since…

— Udny Yule

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are…

— Josiah Stamp

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

— William James

I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.

— Adam Thielen

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

— Manmohan Singh

Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

— Philip K. Dick

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

— William Gibson

One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.

— Rita Mae Brown

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam,

— Charles Babbage

I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics...

— Ashley Cole