Statistics Quotes

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Statistics is the grammar of science.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high.

Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering.

Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which showed that on balance the difference in the cost of living between Canadian cities and American cities was 5 % to the advantage, of course, to the Canadian cities.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.