Bigs Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

— Florence Nightingale

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median…

— Tom Peters

We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday…

— L. Todd Rose

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not…

— Frank Moore Colby

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton

There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The illusion of randomness gradually disappears as the skill in chart reading improves.

— John Murphy

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

— Jonathan Swift

“Variability has potential to create confusion.”

— Steven Redhead

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

— Pema Chodron

Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

— Toni Collette