Meehl Quotes & Sayings

Why are experts inferior to algorithms? One reason, which Meehl suspected, is that experts try to be clever, think outside the box, and consider complex combinations of features in making their predictions. Complexity may work in the odd case, but more often than not it reduces validity. Simple combinations of features are better. — Daniel Kahneman

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours. — Elie Wiesel

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. — Tahereh Mafi

The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need. — Albert Einstein

I got bitten by fangs that went to sink'n'drink, but somewhere between swilling'n'killing, the vampire messed up and turned me into a big fat mistake. — Brian Meehl

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. — Nora Roberts

A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers. — Henry Petroski

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl. — Kate Pierson

How to see a vampire in three easy steps:
1. Get up.
2. Find a mirror.
3. Look at your first vampire. — Brian Meehl

You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room
their motions, their looks and their words
and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer. — Lord Chesterfield

A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights. — Darmie Orem

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What happened to the first vampire who fell for the first mortal? She turned him into a sucker — Brian Meehl

A lot of people approach their barn or horse like they are going to war, because it's been going badly. So you pick up the next day in a defensive mode instead of cleaning the slate and starting fresh. Animals live so much in the moment, so if you're bringing baggage from yesterday you're already at a loss. We do that with people too. — Cindy Meehl

If the second dinosaur to the left of the tall cycad tree had not happened to sneeze and thereby fail to catch the tiny, shrew-like ancestor of all the mammals, we should none of us be here. — Richard Dawkins

It doesn't matter where the story comes from, it matters where it takes you. — J.R. Meehl

He is hotter than a zombie cooked in a dippsy dumpster with kerosene. — Alexander Fontana

But that's how the tree works, ain't it? It gives you what you wish for but not in a way that makes things better. I suppose that's the difference between what you want and what you need." Molly — Jonathan Auxier

The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth — Sunday Adelaja

Got it. You're fourteen. I'm proud you can count that high. It's a testament to the modern American education system. But I should probable point out that you're not the only one. I'm told you go to a school with a whole class of-get this-kids who are fourteen.- Ash — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people. — C. JoyBell C.

I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes. — Cindy Meehl

A lot of people depend on their mate or spouse to make them happy and those are the people that are the most miserable. — Cindy Meehl