"Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way."

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Rebecca Skloot

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Data Quotes

“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
“For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridiculing and mocking and chopping up and rearranging a giant corporation that intrudes on my life whether I want it to or not every day... The idea that I have to be afraid to do that is absurd to me.”
“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.”
“I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.”
“99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.”
“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.”
“Well, I'm a 14 handicap. Anyone who golfs knows what that means.”
“They say that the best counsel is that of woman.”

Source : "'El médico de su honra' ('The Surgeon of his Honour')". Play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Act 1, Scene 2, 1637.

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