Quotes
Authors
Carol Tavris

"The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views."

-- Carol Tavris

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“And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.”

Source : "Setting a Good Corner". The ART21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.
“I fancy you give me credit for being a more systematic sort of cove than I really am in the matter of limits of significance. What would actually happen would be that I should make out Pt (normal) and say to myself that would be about 50:1; pretty good but as it may not be normal we'd best not be too certain, or 100:1; even allowing that it may not be normal it seems good enough and whether one would be content with that or would require further work would depend on the importance of the conclusion and the difficulty of obtaining suitable experience.”
“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”

Source : James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.849, Delphi Classics
“I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.”
“I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.”
“Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams”
“I ain't Martin Luther King. I don't need a dream. I have a plan.”

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