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Quotes About Factors

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
~ James MacArthur
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
~ Daniel De Leon
Rationality does not depend on explicit verbalistic explanatory factors; it is only what aids survival, what avoids ruin.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the "planning fallacy," in which they try to explain the fact that projects take longer, rarely less time, using psychological factors.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The index is supposed to keep the world free from cultural and genetic bias, but aren't there underlying factors that we can't escape? For instance, who decided that the first number of one's genetic index would be Caucasoid? —From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie
~ Neal Shusterman
Studies show that the two greatest stress-producing factors to body, mind, and emotions are the death of a spouse and divorce.
~ Charles H. Kraft
But is it enough that a revolution be carried out by proletarians for it to be a proletarian revolution?" he asked. "War too is made by proletarians, but it is not, for this reason alone, a proletarian event. For it to be so, other, spiritual factors must be present. There must be more to the revolution than the question of power: there must be the question of morality, of a way of life.
~ Chris Hedges
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.
~ Jerome Hines
Six factors that control how much we can charge o Confidence o Value o Social Proof o Authority o Passion o Positioning
~ Carlos Castillo
In fact, in one major study of the factors in coronary heart disease, postmenopausal women with cholesterol levels higher than 295 had heart attack rates that were the same as or lower than
~ Carol Tavris
Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.
~ Merlin Olsen
Everyone recognises that genes are part of the story but autism isn't 100% genetic. Even if you have identical twins who share all their genes, you can find that one has autism and one doesn't. That means that there must be some non-genetic factors.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
~ William Shakespeare
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
~ Thomas Frank
Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.
~ Hermann Broch
Clarity of mind (Cm) is affected by any number of factors, but by far the most important is horniness, which might be designated by ?, for obvious anatomical reasons that Waterhouse finds amusing at this stage of his emotional development.
~ Neal Stephenson
Pure monetary theory, however, cannot explain why in one country the inflationary process proceeds so much further or faster than in another.
~ Niall Ferguson
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
No forecasts then – only brief reviews of some key factors that will determine the world's future quest for a reliable and affordable energy supply, and the major resource and technical options we can use during the next half-century.
~ Vaclav Smil
Ryman himself said—all mistakes proceed from initial conditions.
~ Giles Foden
Exterior pathogenic factors do not usually affect the Heart directly, but the Pericardium instead
~ Giovanni Maciocia