Research Quotes - Page 24

• Today, technology is moving faster than the research establishment.

  James Heywood

  Moving, Technology, Today

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• I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

  John Mayer

  Rights, Library, Shrimp

  "John Mayer Speaks About Eating With Jessica". Access Hollywood Interview, www.accessonline.com. October 30, 2007.

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• Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Scientist

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• Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

  Ziggy Marley

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

  Colin Firth

  Risk, Would Be, Avant Garde

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.

  David Suchet

  Fun, Moving, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Men, My Own

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In acting you do a lot of research. Audience watch Jet Li because of the fight. They watch other actors because they are funny. If they want funny, they don't want to see Jet Li, they watch the other guy. That's the reality I face, until the one day I can prove I can make film without action that is a fun movie. Then everybody will say Jet Li, hmmm.

  Jet Li

  Fun, Fighting, Reality

  "Jet Li Gets Philosophical in Fearless". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 19, 2006.

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• I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Metaphor, Areas

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it.

  Ruby Bentall

  Book, Writing, Acting

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our society in general has is more money equals more happiness and all the research has shown that that's true up to a point, up until you can get your basic needs met, but then really there is other stuff that has a much bigger impact on your happiness besides just money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Impact, Needs, Our Society

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.

  Sean Penn

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Want, Knows

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• Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

  A. C. Bradley

  Imagination, Easy, Difficult

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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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• 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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• In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Philosophy, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At the beginning of the project, I wasn't certain that I could come up with an engaging storyline and cast of characters in this world, so I had a strong bias toward actually writing, and worrying about research later. In other words, I was afraid that I'd devote a year or two of my life to grinding through Kant and Husserl, then discover that there simply was no novel to be written here.

  Neal Stephenson

  Strong, Character, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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