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Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Quotes by Vin Scully

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

Quotes by Victoria Azarenka

It's not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback.

Quotes by Troy Aikman

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Quotes by Story Musgrave

There are folks out there, especially during the political season, that'll try to twist and turn economic statistics for their own personal benefit, to pick and choose talking points in order to tear Montana's progress down.

Quotes by Steve Bullock

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

Quotes by Stephen Leacock

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

Quotes by Stephen J. Dubner

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

Quotes by Stanley Smith Stevens

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Quotes by Stanley Marcus

I must learn to adapt, or else I'll fall victim to the negative statistics surrounding retired athletes.

Quotes by Spencer Paysinger

From what I can tell, pollsters are generally fairly stick-to-the-facts folks. They deal in facts and statistics.

Quotes by Sharyl Attkisson

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

Quotes by Samantha Power

Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty years for a conductor to 'ripen/mature,' we'll only see them in 'top conductors statistics' in some decades.

Quotes by Ruth Reinhardt

Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.

Quotes by Rose George

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.

Quotes by Robert Sternberg

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Quotes by Rex Stout

I realise that certain actors project their own image onto the screen - those who are the same on as they are off. But I've never had the necessary statistics to be able to do that sort of thing, and so, anyway, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Quotes by Peter Sellers

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.

Quotes by Persis Khambatta

Moneyball' doesn't have anything to do with on-base percentage or statistics. It's a constant investigation of stagnant systems, to see if you can find value where it isn't readily apparent.

Quotes by Paul DePodesta

Statistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on.

Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

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.

Quotes by Patricia Ireland

Political linguists have argued that the right often uses stories to make an argument, while the left falls back on facts and statistics.

Quotes by Owen Jones

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Quotes by Morris Kline

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Quotes by Mike Schmidt

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

Quotes by Michael Schumacher

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Quotes by Michael Lewis

Throughout the universe of public and private funds, managers are measured quarterly against one index or another, defined by statistics, and corralled into this category or that category so that fund of funds, pensions, and other institutions can make comforting - if not necessarily prudent - asset allocation decisions.

Quotes by Michael Burry

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

Quotes by Mark Kennedy

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

Quotes by Marilyn vos Savant

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Quotes by Madeleine M. Kunin

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

Quotes by Leonard Woodcock

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.

Quotes by Lee Mack

Math is a language that you use to describe statistics, but really it's about collecting information and putting it in an order that makes sense.

Quotes by Lauren Stamile

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Quotes by Lars Peter Hansen

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

Quotes by Laraine Day

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

Quotes by Koren Zailckas

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

Quotes by Kirk Cousins

I could care less about statistics. It's all about team success.

Quotes by Karl-Anthony Towns

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Quotes by Karl Pearson

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

Quotes by Josiah Stamp

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Quotes by Josiah Stamp

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Quotes by Josefina Vazquez Mota

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

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

Quotes by Jim Sensenbrenner

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

Quotes by Jerry Moran

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

Quotes by Jerry Only

A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.

Quotes by Jefferson Han

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Quotes by Horace

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.

Quotes by Hjalmar Schacht

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Quotes by Henry Clay

Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have lived as a freelance writer with a fixed postal address in Cologne but with a continually shifting place of work.

Quotes by Heinrich Boll

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

Quotes by Harry Reasoner

I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.

Quotes by Hans Rosling

I'm a mathematician. I can trade in facts about false positives and absolute truths about accuracy and statistics with complete confidence.

Quotes by Hannah Fry

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

Quotes by Gunter Grass

The economy should serve man, not statistics.

Quotes by Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Quotes by George Canning

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Quotes by Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Quotes by Fletcher Knebel

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

Quotes by Evan Davis

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

Quotes by Evan Esar

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Quotes by Ernest Rutherford

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

Quotes by Ernie Banks

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

Quotes by Eric Alterman

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

Quotes by Dizzy Dean

Personally, I don't focus much about the statistics of goals and assists. I always want to improve, but I'm not worried about statistics.

Quotes by David Silva

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Quotes by David Lloyd George

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

Quotes by David Korten

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

Quotes by Dave Hickey

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.

Quotes by Daniel Libeskind

The statistics might have a Eurosceptic cast, but they are not exactly a fun read. Few of us want to wade through ONS graphs or European Commission tables.

Quotes by Daniel Hannan

On completing my degree, I started a Ph.D. in statistics, although I knew very little about the topic. My supervisor was Professor Harry Pitt, who was an excellent pure mathematician and probabilist.

Quotes by Clive Granger

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

Quotes by Clive Granger

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

Quotes by Clive Thompson

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Quotes by Christopher McDougall

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Quotes by Chili Davis

We tell stories. We talk about statistics. And in 1978, we added an element of the show that gave it its heartbeat: the long distance dedication.

Quotes by Casey Kasem

Statistics are there to be broken.

Quotes by Casemiro

For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.

Quotes by Brandon Flowers

You can be a great defensive player, and if you don't put up splash statistics, then you're not going to get noticed.

Quotes by Booger McFarland

Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.

Quotes by Bernie Siegel

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Quotes by Arundhati Roy

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.

Quotes by Art Buchwald

I was 16 when I entered the foster system, and know firsthand the statistics for 'aging out.'

Quotes by Angela Featherstone

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Quotes by Andrew Lang

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

Quotes by Andrew Lang

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Quotes by Amity Shlaes

Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Quotes by Alphonse Allais

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Quotes by Alafair Burke

I honestly don't care about individual awards or statistics.

Quotes by Adam Thielen

Obviously it's a statistics game.

Quotes by Adam Vinatieri

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