Quotes About Regression

retreat from life leads to regression, and regression heightens resistance to life.

History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse.

We don't really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.

It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. They hid out in the forest, preserving their freedom by moving from place to place; in what Balée calls "agricultural regression," these hunted peoples necessarily gave up farming and kept body and soul together by foraging.

Regression to the mean, the tendency for behavior to move toward "normal" or average, is a persistently powerful phenomenon in physics and sociology and investing.) Yes, several funds beat the market in any particular year and some in any decade, but scrutiny of the long-term records reveals that very few funds beat the market averages over the long haul—and nobody has yet figured out how to tell in advance which funds will do it. The

Here is one of the most important things to remember when doing research that involves regression analysis: Try not to kill anyone. You can even put a little Post-it note on your computer monitor: "Do not kill people with your research.

Regression analysis enables us to go one step further and "fit a line" that best describes a linear relationship between the two variables.

Life gets a little trickier when we are doing our regression analysis (or other forms of statistical inference) with a small sample of data.

I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

the spirit of regression, [which] threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Decision trees can be used to perform one of two tasks: Classification and Regression.

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!)

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear.

In freedom, most agree, every step forward has always been accompanied by a step back.

Madeline could still regress. When she's tired, stressed, has a trigger, or is facing some adversity, her symptoms, mostly workaholism, can resurface.

America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last week. Not to face now or the future, but to face backwards.

the last decade can be regarded as "the lost decade" because no improvements in flight safety matters have been made in that period.

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