#acts

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me. ↗

— Ray Romano

#demeanor #distracts #focus #golfers #like

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#academia #also #carpet #course #courtroom

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#agree #already #believe #facts #generally

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. ↗

— Mark Twain

#distort #facts #first #get #please

Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#example #facts #good #memory #serve

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. ↗

— E. B. White

#form #get #great #great time #having

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. ↗

— Ryan White

#facts #guarantees #hundred #listening #medical

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#connection #facts #general #into #law

The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts. ↗

— Robert Barany

#certain way #facts #interpretation #other #scientists

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama