Surveys Quotes - Page 11

• It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I

  Emilio Pucci

  Country, Interesting, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them in our surveys of general history, but their discovery is the glory of historical research. History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Past, Sight, Discovery

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• A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view and yet modifies it as conditions develop. The aim, in short, is experimental, and hence constantly growing as it is tested in action.

  John Dewey

  Views, Growing, Action

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.80, 谷月社

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• The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Focus, News

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• According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

  Conan O'Brien

  Believe, Kids, Average

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• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Principles, Needs

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

  Mike McCue

  Motivational, Business, Thinking

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• And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

  Judith Guest

  Reality, People, Twenties

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.92, Penguin

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• A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists.

  Samuel Johnson

  Squares, Cities, Together

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.72

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• God leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterward, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

  Paul Tournier

  Light, Knowing, Feelings

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.

  Alistair Cooke

  Children, War, School

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• I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Laughter, Hero, Journey

  "Dead Souls". Book by Nikolai Gogol. Volume 1, Chapter 7, 1842.

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• A recent government survey found that 47 percent of all women report being the victims of either physical, emotional, sexual or economic violence. But 84 percent of those who are victims of domestic violence remain silent.

  Patricia Espinosa

  Emotional, Government, Domestic Violence

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Media, Average

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• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Believe, Media

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• When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

  Steve Sabol

  Heart, Nfl, Focus

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Psychology, Century, States

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• And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Pride, Dust

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• I'm sure if you could survey the unborn they would prefer the chance for life over the options of solar power.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Chance, Solar Power, Unborn

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Ambition, Son

  Alexander Pope, William Warburton (1757). “The Works of Alexander Pope Esq”, p.134

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• Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.

  Christopher Parsons

  Valentine, Men, Blue

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• Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

  George Karl

  Retirement, Children, Skills

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• I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

  Walter Cronkite

  Love, Men, Thinking

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