“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.” PeopleWayShouldYearsEyeGamesUnderstandingNumbersEmotionalFootballIntellectualBaseballAccountsInstitutionsSacredDistanceProfitFactorsFifteenVaryProgressionPedestalPastimeFifteen YearsSmall NumbersMystiquePro Football Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.” WarWholeThreeMoralMaterialsAccountsFactorsRelativeQuarters Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!” PoliticalThreeTakenAccountsPlantSeedsWeatherFactorsReportsAstrologyProgressionUnfoldingNatal Author:Alice O. Howell
“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.” KnowsMenTryingHumansLongIdeasUseOrderLeaderOughtNormalAccountsFaultsEndureAffairStupidityFactorsInevitableEncountersAttemptingFind MeAssistantsTrue Leader Author:Andre Maurois
“The Left is acting like a young child, saying 'I want peace'... A child says 'I want candy right away,' an adult takes all of the factors into account and understands who he's dealing with.” WantChildrenYoungLeftActingAdultsAccountsFactorsCandyYoung Children Author:Ehud Barak
“So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.” BigsEnergyAreasAccountsPlantNuclearFactorsZoneNuclear PowerPower PlantsSolar EnergySolar Panels Author:Elon Musk
“God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.” WayHas BeensSeemsWorryOne ThingPossibilityCircumstancesAccountsChosenFactorsUpsetDelightfulCalculationsWithout GodCalculatingChosen By God Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.” IfsNeedsLooksDoeDifferentTodayValuesLinesBusinessHonestCostResourcesAccountsSpeciesBottomFactorsSustainabilityExtinctionBottom LineMarketplaceResource DepletionSpecies Extinction Author:Ray Anderson
“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?” ThinkingShouldHumansChildrenTwoYoungThreeFatherTakenFiveFourRightsConcernAccountsDearHuman RightsDetailsHumanitarianFactorsGrandchildrenSaddamOur FatherChildren LoveYoung Ladies Author:Raghad Hussein
“The argument goes that the pay gap only exists because of women's 'choices' of work type, hours, and child related career breaks, effectively making it a myth. But research shows that while those are factors, they don't account for the whole gap, suggesting that discrimination certainly plays a role as well.” WellsChildrenPlayWholeShowsChoicesHoursPayCareersRolesBreakTypeResearchArgumentAccountsMythDiscriminationFactorsRelatedGapsSuggestingPay Gap Author:Laura Bates
“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.” ThinkingMenWorldWayMeanMadeTodayScienceTurnsChangeDecisionBusinessAccountsScience FictionEvery ManFactorsInevitableSensibleContinuingDominantBusinessmanWay Of ThinkingStatesmenProject ManagementChange For The BetterSociety TodayChange Is InevitableInevitable ChangeContinuing On Author:Isaac Asimov
“In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.” MenFirstsHumansMayCountryLastsScienceNumbersClassPolicyAreasAccountsEducationalDeterminedFactorsAnalysisEngagedSectionsRapidsFirst Class Author:James Bryant Conant
“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.” LifeIdeasScienceResultsDoubtConceptsSeasonsAccountsMathematicsFactorsMathematicalPlusFormulasThrowingUnitsHypothesisInheritanceCornLiving ThingsSkepticalSelectedHybridMinusHypotheticalHarper Author:Charles Thom
“There are too many factors you have to take into account that you have no control over...The most important factor you can keep in your own hands is yourself. I always placed the greatest emphasis on that.” ImportantHandsAccountsFactorsCyclesEmphasis Author:Eddy Merckx
“We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.” WorldFirstsPoliticalStrongTakenInfluenceEconomicPolicyIgnoranceEconomicsOrganizationAccountsPrejudiceNotesConfusionFactorsPolicy Making Author:Ronald Coase