Quotes About Rigor

I am very rigorous with myself.

Let's say you plan to teach a class on a subject you know well. How do you begin? You might create a syllabus, then prepare lectures for each topic in the outline. But is there a better way? Remember, you enjoy access to information and aren't limited to trial and error. Perhaps you find a book called Make It Stick about the science of successful learning and encounter another mnemonic, RIGOR, that helps you teach different and better. [71]

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More often forecasts are made and then…nothing. Accuracy is seldom determined after the fact and is almost never done with sufficient regularity and rigor that conclusions can be drawn. The reason? Mostly it's a demand-side problem: The consumers of forecasting—governments, business, and the public—don't demand evidence of accuracy. So there is no measurement. Which means no revision. And without revision, there can be no improvement.

The older we get, the more we desire to reclaim our body at 25; we'll take our face at 35, the elasticity of our mind at its most powerful, to return ourselves somehow to our most vital moment of rigor and protean creation.

The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.

Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.

El contacto y el hábito de Tlön han desintegrado este mundo. Encantada por su rigor, la humanidad olvida y torna a olvidar que es un rigor de ajedrecistas, no de ángeles.

We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.

I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

I am a perfectionist. It has always been this way.

I would never be about waking up early and do morning radio and TV back to back had I not been in the military, where they are throwing a garbage can in the middle of my squad bed at 5 o'clock in the morning for four years straight.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

exactitude in some small matters is the very soul of discipline.

When Germans start being accurate, there's no end to it!

Ils [ces professeurs habités par la passion communicative de leur matière] accompagnaient nos efforts pas à pas, se réjouissaient de nos progrès, ne s'impatientaient pas de nos lenteurs, ne considéraient jamais nos échecs comme une injure personnelle et se montraient avec nous d'une exigence d'autant plus rigoureuse qu'elle était fondée sur al qualité, la constance et la générosité de leur propre travail. (p. 259)

We try to apply the academic rigor in finance to the practical application of managing money within our strategies.

I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.

Most physicists like myself won't believe the result until every possible caveat has been investigated and/or the result is confirmed elsewhere.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

Unfortunately, a lot of economists wanted to make their subject a science. So the more what you do resembles physics or chemistry, the more credible you become.

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.

There is in the soul a desire for not thinking. For being still. Coupled with this a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous. But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch, not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.