Business Quote by Samuel Johnson

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species.

— Samuel Johnson

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

— Philip Larkin

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry,…

— T. S. Eliot

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new…

— Samuel Johnson

Hope is itself a species of happiness...

— Samuel Johnson

If you look at the statistics, I genuinely understand why when we go to a production company or a broadcaster, and they say our…

— Joivan Wade

For me, I try to look at a person's swagger and a little background on them if I already haven't liked them as a…

— Michael Bivins

No matter what the statistics say there is always a way.

— Bernie Siegel

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

— Karen Elizabeth Gordon

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

— Richard P. Feynman

But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and…

— Banesh Hoffmann

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

— Sylvia Porter

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

— Ebbe Skovdahl

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be…

— Albert Einstein

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

— Jim Sensenbrenner