Signals Quotes - Page 20

• Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Nate Silver

  Self, Differences, Serenity

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.309, Penguin

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• If you work in the city long enough, it begins to deal with you on a personal level. Streets reveal their moods. Sometimes the signal light loves you. Sometimes they fight you. When you're hunting for a new building, you hope the city is on your side. You have to use a little bit of thinking--you might call it the process of elimination--and you need a little bit of instinct, but not too much of either. If you think too hard, you overshoot your target and end up at the Pier or the Tenderloin. If you relax and let the city help, the destination does all the work for you.

  Scott Adams

  Love You, Fighting, Thinking

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• I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

  Marge Piercy

  Reading, Cat, Body

  Source: margepiercy.com

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• Discussing the attempts of Augustus' generals to add to the extent of the Roman Empire early in his reign:
  The northern countries of Europe scarcely deserved the expense and labour of conquest. The forests and morasses of Germany were filled with a hardy race of barbarians, who despised life when it was separated from freedom; and though, on the first attack, they seemed to yield to the weight of the Roman power, they soon, by a signal act of despair, regained their independence, and reminded Augustus of the vicissitude of fortune.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Yield, Race

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• Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks

  Amit Abraham

  Long Distance Relationship, Communication, Long Distance Love

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• The greatest element in life is not what occupies most of its time, else sleep would stand high in the scale. Nor is it what engrosses most of its thought, else money would be very high. The two or three hours of worship and preaching weekly has perhaps been the greatest signal influence on English life. Half an hour of prayer, morning or evening, every day, may be a greater element in shaping our course than all our conduct and all our thought.

  Peter Forsyth

  Morning, Prayer, Sleep

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• Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.

  Sun Tzu

  Organization, Matter, Management

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• To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Giving, Patient, Anticipate

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• For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.

  Julio Cortazar

  Clay, Soap Bubbles, Stories

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• If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Might, Characteristics

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• Skill is a cellular insulation that wraps neural circuits and that grows in response to certain signals.

  Daniel Coyle

  Skills, Insulation, Certain

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• When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object is a wall, or an imminent cliff, or a car heading towards you. This might be disturbing to a lot of people, but some of those guesses are errors.

  Usama Fayyad

  Wall, Errors, Judging

  Interview with Joshuah Bearman, believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• It's seriously unfortunate when an elected official of the federal government says she's [Michelle Bachmann] going to deliberately break the law. I don't know what kind of signal she thinks that sends, but if she believes that's a good signal, I'm sad for the country. I think that it's deeply, deeply, unfortunate that a member of Congress would, in effect, invite other people who feel that way to say, "Well, I don't have to do it either."

  Kenneth Prewitt

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• All of the economic signals in the marketplace are essentially subsidizing the use of dirty fossil fuels and penalizing clean energy. There's really only one entity in society that can solve that problem, and that is government. And the air is a scarce resource.

  Jay Inslee

  Dirty, Air, Government

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, Prayer, Grateful

  George Washington's first Presidential Thanksgiving Day proclamation, October 3, 1789.

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• I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

  Atom Egoyan

  Believe, Maturity, Firsts

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• Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

  Nate Silver

  Keys, Data, Patterns

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• POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A man leaves Up above a cloud that passes by No one goes in And the night keeps its secret

  Pierre Reverdy

  Night, Men, Clouds

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• As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.

  Carly Fiorina

  Russia, Rights, America

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Mp3, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Want, Able, Impulse

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

  Ralph Caplan

  Substance, Proud, Way

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• Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

  James Altucher

  Jobs, People, Energy

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Nov 20, 2013

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• 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

  Military, Iraq, Together

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• The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

  Thomas Macdonough

  War, Lakes, Two

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