Quotes About Regression

There is no document of civilization," he wrote, "which is not at the same time a document of barbarism." That line is on his tombstone now.

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.

I believe immensely in past life regression.

The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.

Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression

MY HUSBAND Ã¢â'¬Â¦ HAS become a child again. But not any sort of child I'd be proud of. Not any sort of child I would trust.

How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies . How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher.

When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.

Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.

How can this type of data be made to tell a reliable story? By subjecting it to the economist's favorite trick: regression analysis. No, regression analysis is not some forgotten form of psychiatric treatment. It is a powerful—if limited—tool that uses statistical techniques to identify otherwise elusive correlations.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

Why is the second novel by a breakout debut writer, or the second album by an explosively popular band, so seldom as good as the first? It's not, Or not entirely, because most artists only have one thing to say. It's because artistic success is an amalgam of talent and fortune, like everything else in life, and thus subject to regression to the mean.

You can do linear regression without thinking about whether the phenomenon you're modeling is actually close to linear. But you shouldn't.

Hoje, de tanto que tudo nos parece possível, pressentimos que também o pior seja possível: o retrocesso, a barbárie, a decadência.

The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

There is no document of civilization," he wrote, "which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

It was an unsettling thought, that somehow we were sliding back into the smoky dark and that never again would man make something so perfect as this small building.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

When fundamentalism wins, the world enters a dark age.

The downside of fitness, which takes years to achieve, is how quickly it vanishes—almost instantly.

We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.

My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.

Every day we get better, or we get worse.