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Research Quotes

On research, discovery, and what the data shows.

One quote defines research almost as improvisation - doing something without knowing exactly what you're doing - while others cite concrete findings on how teacher quality predicts a student's long-term outcomes. Doing picks up that first thread.

My favorite part of the film business is the research part, with the access we get from people who are excited to be involved and the things we get to see and do, which we're not normally going to get...

Quotes by Jason Clarke

The whole business of being an actor is to explore, from research to shooting to why you do it. You're trying to see why people do what they do and how it feels to do what they do.

Quotes by Jason Clarke

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

Quotes by Jared Polis

When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.

Quotes by Jane Yolen

Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-edited manuscript or page proofs for a forthcoming novel mean that I need to put my attentions elsewhere for a day or two, but...

Quotes by Jane Lindskold

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

Quotes by Jane Jensen

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.

Quotes by Jamshyd Godrej

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Quotes by Jan Chipchase

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

Quotes by Jan Chipchase

I wasn't scared of childbirth. I educated myself and did my fair share of research, and that made me feel a little more prepared.

Quotes by Jamie-Lynn Sigler

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

Quotes by James Tobin

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man.

Quotes by James Sanborn

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

Quotes by James Rothman

The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting.

Quotes by James Rainwater

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks.

Quotes by James Lipton

I'm big on research.

Quotes by James L. Brooks

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

Quotes by James L. Brooks

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

Quotes by James L. Brooks

Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

Quotes by James Heywood

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a witty definition of research?
Yes — one quote defines it memorably: "Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." For more quotes with a similar playful tone, see our Doing quotes.
Is there a quote about someone's academic background in science?
Yes, one quote recalls studying "towards the diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich" between 1949 and 1953, describing that period as when they made their first contacts with fundamental research.
Does this page cite research about teacher effectiveness?
Yes — one quote states, "Research confirms that great teachers change lives," and that students with an effective elementary school teacher are "more likely to go to college" and "less likely to become pregnant as teens."
Is there a quote about identifying what makes a successful teacher?
Yes, one quote mentions doing "a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful," concluding that "The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement."
Where can I find more quotes about learning and self-discovery?
Browse our Life quotes, Me quotes, or More quotes for related themes.

For more on process and curiosity, see Life or More.