Modern Quote by Randal Marlin Download Open image “In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.” — Randal Marlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern Modern times Numbers Policy Policy making Sound Time
Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, the numbers that we're hearing are not going to be totally correct or not correct at all. — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In every aspect of our lives we talk about numbers. We talk about cars in this way, houses, jobs. — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and… — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Success doesn't have a downside for me. I'm busy, but I've always been busy whatever job I've had. My very first job working in… — Victoria Derbyshire Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
