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• Many studies of research scientists have shown that achievement (at least below the genius level of an Einstein, Bohr, or a Planck) depends less on ability in doing research than on the courage to go after opportunity.

  Peter Drucker

  Opportunity, Achievement, Genius

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• The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Discovery, Missing, Usual

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• The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

  R. D. Laing

  Taken, Data, Speak

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The love of money is the root of all evil. That is the fundamental truth that I have verified through 3 decades of empirical, investigative, legal, academic research trying to answer some fundamental questions about human existence and why we behave the way we do, why we think the way we do, why we act the way we do...It is the love of money that has the potential to exterminate- to render extinct- the entire human race.

  Michael Ruppert

  Thinking, Roots, Race

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• There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Children, Play, Parent

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• Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.

  Neil Postman

  Attention, Pay, Serious

  Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner (1973). “The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about”

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• The first time formal customer research is done, executives frequently are surprised by the sizeable percentage of customers who defect for service-related reasons.

  Leonard L. Berry

  Done, Firsts, Reason

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• The consistent finding of psychological research is that we are fairly accurate in our perceptions of others. It's our self-perceptions that are distorted because we look at ourselves in a rose-colored mirror.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mirrors, Self, Rose

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.66, Basic Books

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• Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

  Bruce Feiler

  Mean, Talking, Important

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• A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues.

  Euell Gibbons

  Beautiful, Weed, Interesting

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• I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Writing, Library

  "Bill Bryson answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2005.

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• To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

  Yann Martel

  Mean, Alive, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Government, Support

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Mean, Medicine, Drug

  Source: www.salon.com

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• New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Emotional, Pathways, Nerves

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• Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Believe, Character, Fundamentals

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• Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.

  Michael Glawogger

  Couple, Months, Glory

  "Michael Glawogger’s 'Whores’ Glory'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. July 20, 2012.

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• Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.

  Amy Ziering

  Issues, Trying, Homework

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history. The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another. And if the Holocaust actually occurred, then you should permit impartial groups from the whole world to research this. Why do you restrict the research to a certain group? Of course, I don't mean you, but rather the European governments.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Mean, Government, Roots

  "We Are Determined". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• A 2011 report produced by Forrester Research estimated that the revenue generated through the sales of smartphone and tablet applications will reach $38 billion annually by 2015. Think about that: An industry that did not exist in 2006 will be generating $38 billion in revenues within a decade. . . .

  Thomas Friedman

  Thinking, Smartphones, Tablets

  Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum (2011). “That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Art, New York, School

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Real, Moving, Commitment

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Holocaust, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Lying, Responsibility, Past

  "We Are Determined". Interview with Stefan Aust, Gerhard Sporl and Dieter Bednarz in Tehran, www.spiegel.de. May 30, 2006.

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• I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!

  Peg Kehret

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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