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Quotes About Numbers

I see the value of being a force. I don't want to say a force, but numbers. If you're all spread out, you can't change policy for the better, and I feel we've done that.
~ Ted Yoho
When you get older, you want to be playing. I'm not one who would want to be sitting around as part of the squad, making up the numbers. I am conscious that I want to be playing and making a contribution to the team.
~ Michael Carrick
Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks and are as important to the big-data equation as the numbers themselves.
~ Kate Crawford
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
~ Evan Esar
Brian Dawkins, to me, in an era I played in, there were three, really four safeties where their numbers and their impact on the game stands alone.
~ Donovan McNabb
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
~ Henry R. Luce
Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.
~ Terry McAuliffe
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Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of Space and Time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.
~ The Divine Pymander
Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
~ Donna Karan
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
~ John Guare
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
~ Eddie Vedder
In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.
~ Ted Waitt
Berdua saja tidaklah cukup, itu adalah masalahnya. Ia selalu berpikir bahwa dua adalah angka yang tepat, dan ia benci untuk hidup dalam keluarga berjumlah tiga, empat, atau lima. Tapi, sekarang ia bisa melihat alasan dibalik hal itu: Jika seseorang menghilang, maka kau tidak akan tinggal sendiri.
~ Nick Hornby
He had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention. How you said something could be more important than what you said.
~ Nick McDonnell
You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.
~ Nora Roberts
Tres Cuatro y Cinco
~ Nora Roberts
Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four
~ Norman Maclean
By now, the flock—the walkers themselves—numbered 325. With them came the shepherds, over a hundred.
~ Chuck Wendig
Let me explain in management terms: police chiefs need to look at the numbers of each type of crime, over time, to know whether their strategy is working. The manager of a business cannot see the complete health of the company by looking at specific orders from specific customers; he or she needs to have things aggregated as revenues, costs, and profits.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
The Hell Priest had begun to utter what sounded like a cross between a chant and an equation: numbers and words intertwined.
~ Clive Barker
Numbers can't be racist, right? But the data can be dumb or wrong, though, and if you feed shit into the computer, it gives you shit right back.
~ Colson Whitehead