Quotes About Central

It is energy, the central element of which is will, that produces the miracles of enthusiasm in all ages. It is the mainspring of what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

You find in Krishna that non-attachment is the central idea.

What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Until recent history, the central state represented about 5 percent of the economy. ...and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs to businessmen. The contagious creation of nation-states in the late nineteenth century led to what we saw with the two world wars and their sequels.

Paris itself was barely controlled by France—no more than the Rio slums called favelas are currently ruled by the Brazilian central state.

The work itself was a secondary consideration.

Some readers may see it as an appendix; others may consider it the heart of the book.

As a rule of thumb, the sample size must be at least 30 for the central limit theorem to hold true.) This

Statistical inference is really just the marriage of two concepts that we've already discussed: data and probability (with a little help from the central limit theorem).

we have another statistic that also signals the "middle" of a distribution, albeit differently: the median.

The central limit theorem tells us that a large sample will not typically deviate sharply from its underlying population

The central limit theorem tells us that the sample means will be distributed roughly as a normal distribution around the population mean.

characteristic of the median—that it does not weight observations on the basis of how far they lie from the midpoint

There are limits to monetary policy.

The monetary policy instruments which Russia has at its disposal are pretty well developed.

When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

los economistas que observaron las consecuencias reales de una economía planificada de forma central llegaron a una conclusión muy diferente: que «existen demasiadas relaciones económicas, y resulta imposible tomarlas a todas en cuenta y coordinarlas de manera cuidadosa».