#statistic

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#among #cannot #children #common #district

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#business #business owners #complain #complaining #customer

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#age #america #birth #day #educated

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#baseball #becomes #booed #cheered #every

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

We are just statistics, born to consume resources. ↗

— Horace

#consume #just #resources #statistics

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

— Hilaire Belloc

#method #quantitative #statistics #sterility #triumph

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#every #form #four #friends #illness

The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen. ↗

— Tony Goldwyn

#also #anything #better #decisions #directing

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#been #biggest #children #deficiency #group