Statistics Quotations

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

The evidence is inarguable that Australia is becoming too expensive and too uncompetitive to do export-oriented business. Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day. Such statistics make me worry for this country's future. We are becoming a high-cost and high-risk nation for investment.

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

The greatest moments are those when you see the result pop up in a graph or in your statistics analysis - that moment you realise you know something no one else does and you get the pleasure of thinking about how to tell them.

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

I found out that smoking is the leading cause of statistics.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, wed be terrified.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.

Americans pay up to 1,000 percent more to fill their prescriptions than consumers in other countries - that is an alarming statistic.

Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate - are only an image of the past that can then be Photoshopped before being pasted on to the future.

You believe in God or statistics or the way your narrative differs from other people.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

It's tough to make it as an actor, tougher still to make it as an actress - the Screen Actors Guild is eager to provide the statistics to verify the latter.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.

When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.

I was scheduled to go to Paris next week and I was really sweating it until yesterday when the conference was canceled. Yes, I'm in the business and I understand that the statistics are in your favor when you fly, but I'm just like everybody else -- I don't make decisions based on statistics.

I was taking a whole bunch of statistics and accounting courses, and I just hated it. I just wanted to figure out how I could do something within my major the next semester that I actually liked.

Obviously we would like to see those statistics higher. But this is a process that the NCAA member institutions are going through to change behavior and essentially ensure the student athletes, coaches and everyone involved in collegiate athletics understands that academic achievement and academic performance is just as important as athletic performance.

One of the statistics you look for in pizza is trying to establish a loyalty rate. If you get someone to try your pizza, can you get them to convert to you?

Post-Christmas economic statistics have been inconclusive, with those from the retail and manufacturing sectors on the negative side, while house prices are showing signs of improvement. Therefore, despite earlier hopes of a cut this time, a no-change decision was widely expected. However, we firmly believe the trend is still downwards and therefore this is a cut 'deferred', not a change of heart.

People who accumulate statistics that are warranted of Hall of Fame-type numbers should be in, ... The numbers are what counts.

Next week's retail sales numbers and inflation numbers are going to be some key statistics to give us a little bit more input into where the Fed stands.

I'd like to talk to him, but just about being the best tight end I can be, ... I know he did some great things here and was part of a lot of winning teams. I want to experience that type of success here. I'm not too worried about my statistics because that's not what's important. It's winning games.

Most of the time they don't even admit a problem exists, ... They point to selective statistics of crime going down.

Most poultry contain harmful bacteria. Recent statistics show that about 60 percent of chickens -- broilers -- are contaminated with campylobacter, and 10 percent with salmonella. And turkeys tend to be higher.

Many businesses see statistics showing economic growth as a cruel joke. Competition is still brutal, wages are still rising, prices are still flat or falling, and profits are as hard to find as they were a year ago.

She's that quiet force on a team. Her presence never shows up in statistics as much as we felt it on the court. I think she was one of the top defenders in the state.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

From 1978 when I bought my Apple II, for the next four years I just threw myself into PCs, and did lots of things - I had a little consulting practice, I formed an Apple users group in the New England area which was, of course, the first one on the East Coast, and I started a tiny cottage software business doing a statistics and graphics package for the Apple II.

From a statistics viewpoint, we played pretty well. We forced 11 turnovers and closed down their inside game. Unfortunately, Stearns lit it up with four three-pointers to open the second half and that was it.

For us, we don't get caught up in statistics as much. As players, the team MVP is the guy who exemplifies hard work at practices, gives it his all on Sundays and is the guy to get the guys up.

I don't buy into the equation that going after the sellers or merchants or anything else has anything to do with reducing crime, and if someone can show me the statistics where it works, I'd be very interested in seeing it, but they don't exist.

I feel we should have won. We worked hard and the statistics show it, but we weren't really playing our game.

(But) the statistics published today show that crime is continuing to fall and the chance of being a victim of crime is the lowest in almost a quarter of a century. This is a considerable achievement.

I have a little experience, but not much, ... I forgot everything from 1989. They told me just to be myself, and to forget about the statistics all that much, and talk about the game. Basically, I'm a manager in the booth.

Guys can definitely be diagnosed with it in their 20s and 30s. Statistics are showing that younger guys are more susceptible than before, but with all of our early detection programs, we?re catching it a lot sooner too.

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

What we found is that the signal is so bold and big, that you don't have to do any fancy statistics to beat it out of the data. It's just there, bang. And the odds are exceedingly good that the model did not trick us with this signal.

He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story.

Hyundai Motor America is proud to announce its continued commitment to traffic safety by showcasing the new tools developed in conjunction with LAPD and LAUSD to raise community awareness among children and adults, and to help reduce the alarming statistics related to motor vehicle collisions. As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and to promote healthy communities, ... We created The ABCs of Traffic Safety Always Be Careful - in the fall of 2003 to remind drivers, occupants, and pedestrians about proper use of safety belts and child restraints; promote safe driving by commuters particularly in reduced speed school zones; and ensure children have been properly instructed on crossing streets.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support rather than illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

I always talk to the kids about team first and don't pay a lot of attention to your individual statistics or records or whatnot. Being up here and accepting something like this, I almost feel a little guilt because there are so many people behind it. I know my name will go down in the book, but I think Coach Haley's name needs to go right there with mine. And to all the players that have played for us, all their parents, all the administration, the fans... I'm just very thankful to all of you.

If statistics show any signs of bullishness, prices will go higher. Technically, the market wants to test $65 a barrel.

He was always around sports and we didn't have anybody doing statistics then, so I got him to come help us. He was a very intelligent man who could do lots of things.

Historically, cocaine was a fairly rare drug in Europe. Then in Britain, the Netherlands and Spain it became increasingly available in big cities and now it is very visible in national statistics in these countries and our concern is there could be further diffusion in Europe.

He's done a tremendous job in a number of countries - his statistics are extremely impressive.

My opponent is the king of smoke and mirrors. His budget's been smoke and mirrors. His crime statistics have been smoke and mirrors.

Recent labor statistics were already a concern, and another down-leg in consumer confidence seems likely.