Research Quotes - Page 8

• As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non - fiction - histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.

  Dan Brown

  Sound, Fiction, May

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• There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

  David Bohm

  Real, Long, Reason Why

  "A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of 'Hidden' Variables. II". Physical Review, Volume 35, No. 2 (p. 188), January 15, 1952.

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• I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility. I'd also like to be six foot two and fifteen years into my reign as Emperor of Europa. The simple truth is that past the character's name and a long history of making my own body cover distances, I did very little in the way of targeted research.

  Robert Reed

  Distance, Character, Past

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• François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.

  I. M. Pei

  Art, Years, Design

  Source: archtalks.com

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• This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

  John Lasseter

  Inspiration, Filmmaker, Knows

  "John Lasseter Returns to Hand Drawn Animation with The Princess and the Frog". Interview with B. Alan Orange, www.movieweb.com. March 13, 2010.

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

  James Heywood

  Moving, Technology, Today

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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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• I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write.

  Avi Lewis

  Book, Writing, Different

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to do in my life. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

  David McCullough

  Book, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character or someone who actually existed, it's a work of faction. By the very fact you only have an hour and a half or two hours to tell a story, you're telescoping events and it is, in the end, a work of imagination.

  Cate Blanchett

  Character, Two, Imagination

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• ...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

  David Christian

  School, Offering, Way

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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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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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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• Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

  Sara Sheridan

  Archives, Charity, Letters

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• Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is so that people can use the deviations as spring boards or opportunities to share the truth, light, grace and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

  Todd McFarlane

  Phones, Focus, Groups

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• I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over.

  Laurel Clark

  Country, Blessed, Positive Energy

  "Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth", www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

  Laurel Clark

  Space, Long, Physicians

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• First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

  Jay Chiat

  People, Office, Library

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

  Angela Bassett

  Character, Actors, Becoming

  "Angela Bassett Talks American Horror Story: Freak Show, Filming in New Orleans, Her First Reaction to Finding Out Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• With regard to the alternatives, we already have them. The cellular and genetic lines of research in humans are the most promising. AIDS is caused by a virus, so it makes sense to study the virus, not chimpanzees. We have learned virtually nothing about AIDS from the chimpanzee. Every major advance in AIDS research ... has come from human studies.

  Roger Fouts

  Atheism, Alternatives, Lines

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• Scientists have determined that the most irritating sound to the human ear is the sound of a knife cutting a glass bottle. And the second-worst sound is a fork scratching a glass bottle. Evidently they did all their research at the Picnic for Morons.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Cutting, Science

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• I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.

  Tim Ferriss

  Writing, Two, Together

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