Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 9

• What we have is a data glut.

  Vernor Vinge

  Data

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• Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Data, Marketing, Deer

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• I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

  Hal Varian

  Sexy, Jobs, Years

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• A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Reality, Men, Trouble

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• The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

  Henri Delacroix

  Communication, Language, Individual

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• Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Rebel, Generations

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives.

  Peter Friedman

  Meaningful, Two, Marketing

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• The Playtex Secrets survey truly uncovered some thought-provoking and provocative secrets of real American housewives. In fact, many of the findings would make great fodder for a storyline on the show!

  Alfre Woodard

  Real, Secret, Facts

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• I believe Fernand Point is one of the last true gourmands of the 20th century. His ruminations are extraordinary and thought-provoking. He has been an inspiration for legions of chefs.

  Thomas Keller

  Believe, Inspiration, Rumination

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• Alec Nevala-Lee comes roaring out of the gate with a novel that's as thrilling as it is thought-provoking, as unexpected as it is erudite. The Icon Thief is a wild ride through a fascinating and morally complex world, a puzzle Duchamp himself would have applauded. Bravo.

  Jesse Kellerman

  Icons, Roaring, Thieves

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• This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.

  Grover Norquist

  Book, Men, Python

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• We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'

  Chinua Achebe

  Humanity, Mud, Practicals

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 28, 2012

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• A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Yesterday, Get Up

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.135, Heinemann

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• In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reading, Successful

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• The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Inspiring, Pregnancy, Healing

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• ...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

  Marsden Wagner

  Strength, Inspiring, Strong Women

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• To find yourself, think for yourself.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Art, Style

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• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  Laura Bush

  Education, Children, Book

  "The 21st Century Elementary Library Media Program". Book by Carl A. Harvey, p. 3, 2009.

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• Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

  Richard Powers

  Book, Reading, Mind

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• Out of clutter, find simplicity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Work

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Doe, Mastery

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

  Voltaire

  Journey, Hiking, Being Different

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.109, Penguin

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• Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Thank You, Time, Children

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• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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