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    John Barrowman
    “I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
    ― John Barrowman
    tags: bollywood, happiness, humor, music
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    ― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge
    2256 likes

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  • #3
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: gratitude
    1948 likes

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  • #4
    Rollo May
    “It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
    ― Rollo May
    tags: philosophy
    1589 likes

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  • #5
    Mary Oliver
    “to live in this world

    you must be able
    to do three things
    to love what is mortal;
    to hold it

    against your bones knowing
    your own life depends on it;
    and, when the time comes to let it go,
    to let it go”
    ― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
    tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry
    2476 likes

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
    ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
    tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory
    1304 likes

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  • #7
    Brené Brown
    “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
    ― Brené Brown
    tags: data, soul, stories
    130 likes

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  • #8
    K.C. Cole
    “One person's data is another person's noise.”
    ― K.C. Cole
    tags: chaos, data, music, noise, sound
    34 likes

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  • #9
    Paul Kalanithi
    “Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.”
    ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
    382 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
    ― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
    tags: consciousness, dreams, unconscious
    146 likes

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  • #11
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story
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    Robert Anton Wilson
    “There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson
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    V.S. Ramachandran
    “Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.”
    ― V.S. Ramachandran, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
    69 likes

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  • #14
    Ronald H. Coase
    “If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
    ― Ronald H. Coase, Essays on Economics and Economists
    tags: data-analysis, torture
    89 likes

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  • #15
    “To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.”
    ― Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
    tags: cognition, data-analysis, data-mining, mindfulness, noise
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  • #16
    “Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”
    ― Peter Watts, Blindsight
    tags: artificial-intelligence, comprehension, data-analysis, post-modern-technofaith, wisdom
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  • #17
    “The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.”
    ― Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
    tags: data-analysis, marketing, technology, technology-addiction
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    Isaac Asimov
    “The real point of the matter is that what we call a 'wrong datum' is one which is inconsistent with all other known data. It is our only criterion for right and wrong.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions
    tags: data-analysis, right-and-wrong
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  • #19
    “Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.”
    ― Stephen Few
    tags: data, data-analysis, data-mining, information
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    Amanda Cox (books by multiple authors with the same name)
    “There's a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That's possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.”
    ― Amanda Cox
    tags: data-analysis, dataviz
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  • #21
    Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
    “If you can't understand a study, the problem is with the study, not with you.”
    ― Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
    tags: big-data, data-analysis, data-science, good-writing, popular-science, research
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  • #22
    “Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.”
    ― Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
    tags: data, data-analysis, data-mining, information
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  • #23
    Robert M. Pirsig
    “When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.”
    ― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
    tags: analysis, sacrifice, though
    120 likes

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  • #24
    J. Krishnamurti
    “Analysis does not transform consciousness.”
    ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
    76 likes

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  • #25
    C.S. Lewis
    “A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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    C.S. Lewis
    “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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    Antonio Iturbe
    “But those who believe that flowers grow in vases don't understand anything about literature. The library has now become her first-aid kit, and she's going to give the children a little of the medicine that helped her recover her smile when she thought she'd lost it forever.”
    ― Antonio Iturbe, La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz
    tags: bibliotherapy, books, death, grit, hope, literature
    10 likes

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  • #28
    Edward R. Tufte
    “Above all else show the data.”
    ― Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
    tags: data, graphics, statistics
    28 likes

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  • #29
    Marc Bekoff
    “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
    ― Marc Bekoff
    tags: anecdote, data, evidence, science, scientific-method
    34 likes

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  • #30
    “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.”
    ― Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement
    tags: data, motivation, success
    11 likes



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