Positivistic Research Quotes & Sayings

I think that's really risky to make yourself unsexy, because the business demands that women be sexy. — David Morse

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it. — LaVyrle Spencer

Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer — Cynthia Sue Larson

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water — Karl Von Frisch

Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban. — Andrew Ryan

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words! — Vladimir Nabokov

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think. — Marshall McLuhan

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. — D.H. Lawrence

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. — Thucydides

What is it that makes a seemingly rational man set out on a perilous journey knowing full well that the odds of success are quite remote and the consequences of failure are likely to be devastating? Is it pride, stubbornness, a yearning for adventure, or just a reckless disregard of reality? — Stan Turner

My father loved people, children and pets. — Tony Visconti

A rebuke to Cong. How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour. — Ronald Reagan