Quotes About Factors

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

It's a cliche that cricket is the only unifying force in the Caribbean. It is but there are a lot of other factors that keep us apart. Success in sport and war will always unite but you need to have a greater foundation and greater core.

In 1990, Howard Friedman and Leslie Martin, two psychologists at the University of California, Riverside, embarked on a research project within a research project, seeking answers to the question, 'What makes for a long life?'

What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families, our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

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.

The sum total of a person's experiences, desires and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about, all combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.

It is an interesting fact that in history there are recorded numerous incidents in which factors present themselves which are not classed as normal mental activities, and which cannot be classed, justly, as abnormal, but which we may call supernormal, inasmuch as they are the experiences of perfectly normal people, brought out under the stress of extraordinary circumstances.

A lot of factors go into choosing a vice-presidential nominee.

Four basic factors are present in every story, with varying degrees of emphasis: milieu, idea, character, and event.

considered amicable because the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 which, when added together, reach 284. And the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220. They are the only amicable numbers under 1,000.

There are some factors you can control, and some you can't. Wishing things were different won't make them different.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

How can a book describe the psychological factors a person must prepare for . . . the despair, the alienation, the anxiety and especially the pain, both physical and mental, which slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition, which are the real things that must be planned for? No words can transmit those factors . . .

a quote on page 6 by a fellow named Charles Long, with whom the authors of The Pacific Crest Trail, Volume 1: California heartily agreed, that said, "How can a book describe the psychological factors a person must prepare for … the despair, the alienation, the anxiety and especially the pain, both physical and mental, which slices to the very heart of the hiker's volition, which are the real things that must be planned for? No words can transmit those factors …

Gray tenía una visión exaltada del estratega como alguien que podía ver el sistema como un todo, captando las múltiples interdependencias y los numerosos factores en juego con el fin de averiguar y señalar dónde se podría aplicar la acción del modo más provechoso.

En su libro Estrategia moderna (Modern Strategy) apuntó diecisiete factores a tener en cuenta: la gente, la sociedad, la cultura, la política, la ética, la economía y la logística, la organización, la administración, la información y la inteligencia, la teoría estratégica y la doctrina, la tecnología, la operatividad, el mando, la geografía, la fricción / el azar / la incertidumbre, el adversario y el tiempo.

After trying out a number of ways to reduce inequalities and failing, I was gradually forced to conclude that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.

People's inflated belief in the importance of personality traits and dispositions, together with their failure to recognize the importance of situational factors in affecting behavior, has been termed the "fundamental attribution error

Thus, we are wise to at least consider orientation to authority as one of several factors—including low intelligence, low education, lack of political sophistication, and external threats of specific kinds (for example, economic threat)—predisposing people to accept fascist ideology.

It is very unlikely that the genetics of homosexuality will ever devolve to a single factor in humans with such major effects as it has in Drosophila.

For America, the period of 1800 to 1920 was an unparalleled time of broad expansion and growth driven by extraordinary factors unlike almost any other in history.

A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.