Quotes About Confirmation

Everyone nodded. Technically it was correct, as they did know it now.

In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value

People tend to seek and latch on to information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs while avoiding, disregarding, or minimizing evidence that challenges them.

bonus." The subject is anti-Americanism for its own sake, where resorting to general assumptions about the United States contributes nothing, either descriptively or analytically, to understanding the topic at hand, but instead chiefly serves the purpose of confirming and mobilizing preexisting prejudices.

It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

I've always given presidents the benefit of the doubt on their nominees.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Every time I put out music and it goes well, it's a confirmation of your taste and your gut.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Making sense is overrated. It's just confirming what people already think. Making new sense is more important.

Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses; for confirmations of the idea rather than for disconfirmations.

The principle of social proof says so: The greater the number of people who find any idea correct, the more the idea will be correct.

But it comes down to this: in deciding whether a possibility is correct, people typically look for hits rather than misses;

Do you consider yourself a helpful person?" Following brief reflection, nearly everyone answered yes. In that privileged moment—after subjects had confirmed privately and affirmed publicly their helpful natures—the researchers pounced, requesting help with their survey. Now 77.3 percent volunteered.

Although further evidence of Djugashvili's involvement is lacking, we do have confirmation that a group of forty or so students was forced to leave the seminary in the fall of 1899 in a manner very strongly suggesting that the school authorities found them to be engaged in forbidden clandestine activities.[

To hold an idea and convince ourselves we arrived at it rationally, we go in search of evidence to support our view. What could be more objective or scientific? But because of the pleasure principle and its unconscious influence, we manage to find the evidence that confirms what we want to believe. This is known as confirmation bias.

No one can argue with a demonstrated proof. As Baltasar Gracián remarks, "The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Once the heron to set his path; Twice the heron to name him true.

Do you know, my arm must be black and blue from the elbow up, for I've pinched myself so many times today. Every little while a horrible sickening feeling would come over me and I'd be afraid it was all a dream. Then I'd pinch myself it see if it was real- until suddenly I remembered that even supposing it was only a dream I'd better go on dreaming as long as I could; so I stopped pinching.

And various bibliographic sources agree that "Like a Thief in the Night" appeared in the May 1983 edition of Cosmopolitan. But I've never been able to confirm this. I don't think it ever appeared in a magazine.