Estimator Quotes & Sayings

My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me. — Robert J. Shiller

Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose. — James McAvoy

The notion of a defense that will protect American cities is one that will not be achieved, but it is that goal that supplies the political magic, as it were, in the president's vision. — James R. Schlesinger

Talk to people, not above them. — John C. Maxwell

The word patriotism, or its equivalents and derivations, is upon everyone's lips at the present time. It is a magic word which is thought by most people to cover any multitude of sins. To be patriotic in whatever cause is tantamount to being virtuous, while no worse charge can be brought against a man in popular estimation than to say he is unpatriotic. — Ernest Belfort Bax

He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously among us. — Michael Ondaatje

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. — Ivar Giaever

Deep, persistent problems are never solved by accident; they are solved only by people who are obsessed with them and set out to solve them directly. — Lee Smolin

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take. — Donald Knuth

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. — Blaise Pascal

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same. — Margaret Atwood

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven? — Neal Shusterman

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson) — Jon Meacham

The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made. — Frank Herbert

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? — B.K.S. Iyengar

I want to share my life with you, to be
monogamous with you, and my past is in the past. I wish there was some way I could prove it to you, once and for all. I do have a sordid past, but I've never lied to any of the women I've been with, and I've never promised to anyone the things I promise to you. — R.K. Lilley