“I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.” IfsThinkingChanceStudyHigherFindingsDrivenArchitectureFarmersSwissPracticality Author:Peter Zumthor
“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.” MenTwoBookFatherWalksRoomsStudyFieldsProductsFindingsDrawingEndlessShouldersCertaintyGrassAfternoonVolumeBedroomShelvesBladesLandingRainyGreat BookAtticsBlades Of GrassBookcases Author:C. S. Lewis
“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.” BelieveMadeAgeI BelieveDecisionStudyRiskInformationRegretMonthsFindingsMalesFinalsSignificantDataAfrican AmericanReportsArticlesAutismJournalVaccinesI RegretProtocol Author:William Thompson
“A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.” KindMeanFoundHellStudyFindingsCongressBritishMedicalScareJournalInactivity Author:Jay Leno
“Milton Erickson was a master at using experiential techniques to elicit strengths that were previously dormant. Mills and Crowley have masterfully captured essential elements of Erickson's work and applied it to therapy with children. Easy to read, meticulously referenced, and filled with inspiring case studies, Therapeutic Metaphors for Children and the Child Within has now been updated with important new findings, and it's essential reading for clinicians who work with children as well as for those who want to improve their use of therapeutic metaphor.” WantWellsChildrenImportantUseReadingEasyCasesStudyMastersEssentialsElementsFindingsFilledMetaphorTechniqueTherapyCapturedMillsTherapeuticDormantMiltonCase StudiesClinicians Author:Jeffrey K. Zeig
“But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.” ShouldWritingHas BeensStillsYoungLostCausesProcessStudyTeachingFindingsErrorsAncientAcceptedConclusionPassagesPassage Of Time Book:Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science Source: Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science
“One study on the treatment of asthma patients conducted by researchers John Goyeche, Dr. Ago, and Dr. Ikemi, suggests that any effective treatment should address suppressed emotions-such as anxiety and self-image-as well as the physical dimension. To achieve this, they encourage correction of poor posture, and helping the person relax the irrelevant respiratory muscles while restoring full diaphragmatic breathing. They also recommended finding ways for getting rid of excess mucus. The good news is that a well rounded breath practice will do all these things.” WayShouldWellsPersonsSelfHelpingPoorEmotionPracticeStudyAchieveAnxietyFindingsNewsBreathsPatientBreathingMusclesDimensionsAddressesRelaxTreatmentExcessDrsIrrelevantGood NewsPostureResearchersCorrectionsRestoringAsthmaWell RoundedRespiratory Author:Donna Farhi
“Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.” KnowsStudyFindingsContradictoryEmpiricism Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Interpretations of Muslim assimilation have gravitated between two arguments: that Muslims will remain as permanent outsiders or that Muslims will blend in with little difficulty at all. Mucahit Bilici demonstrates how wanting these arguments are. Finding Mecca in America takes us into the uncharted territory of what it is actually like to be Muslim immigrants in the United States. I am especially impressed by the study's theoretical depth and empirical insights.” LittlesTwoStatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesStudyFindingsArgumentDifficultyDepthInsightPermanentImmigrantsInterpretationTerritoryOutsidersImpressedTheoreticalAssimilationMeccaUnchartedUncharted Territory Author:Robert Wuthnow
“Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.” MenTryingDoeFallGrowsMistakeStudyConditionsWalkingFindingsAll ThingsBottomEvery ManInstructionElsewhereCatchingDiscouragingPavementIncessantWrong Direction Author:Thomas Carlyle
“We can work out anything if we put our mind to it, study it, do hard work instead of finding simple answers” IfsMindHardSimpleAnswersStudyHard WorkFindingsWork Out Author:Jacque Fresco
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“The curious company studies the anomalies or the unexpected findings. The company that isn't curious ignores them or punishes people who don't do exactly what they set out to do.” PeopleCompanyStudyFindingsCuriousUnexpectedAnomalies Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning in some detail. Most education professionals, who often know a tremendous amount about the classroom, don't know much about the brain. That is one of the reasons why I am so skeptical about applying brain findings to the classroom.” KnowsReasonMightBrainStudyTaughtAmountFindingsScientistDetailsReason WhyGradesClassroomSkeptical Author:John Medina