#signal

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. ↗

— Nate Silver

#distinguishing #knowledge #noise #requires #scientific

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#because #bureaucracy #cabinet #committee #environment

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. ↗

— Peter York

#beauty #cunning #genius #high #high level

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#although #conditions #depends #distance #fall

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. ↗

— Stephen King

#almost #beginning #career #little #more

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity. ↗

— Dorothy Sarnoff

#eye #eyes #gaze #into #look

It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#against #american #american military #amnesty #civilians

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#hypocrisy #ostentation #signal

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#american military #asked #boots #equipment #give