“I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.” PeopleWritingYearsKindNovelMagicCenturyStrangeResearchVampireWitchReluctantIntriguing Author:Deborah Harkness
“In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.” PeoplePastFoundInterestingCommonMagicResearchOrdinaryMost InterestingPeople From The Past Author:David Liss
“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.” PeopleWritingLiteratureFictionFantasyObjectsHorrorResearchScience FictionNon Fiction Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.” PeopleGivingShouldIdeasPoliticalPoliticsInterestResearchTasksStressPracticalsCarrieSpellsLicenseImplicationsAcademiaMisuseFrayVested InterestsScholarlyIdeologues Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work. They are more content and playful in the presence of other adults, meaning that they feel secure with people other than Mother.” PeopleFeelsMotherCommonBabyResearchAdultsSeparationCommon SensePsychologicalSecureAttachmentBondingPsychological Research Author:Sandra Scarr
“If we [Americans] are a strong people, a united people, why do we always have to hear how great we are? What is this self-love? Where does this come from? It got worse, because after the war we thought we'd won it. That's the first myth. Frankly, Russia won it. The Soviet Union sacrificed far greater form than anyone else to win that war. Secondly, we had the atomic bomb. We should not have dropped it on Japan. We did as an example to the Soviets, not to defeat Japan and to save American lives. These are myths that we explode with a lot of research early on.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsDoeWarSelfFormWinningStrongUnitedGreaterExampleSelf LoveResearchUnionsDefeatMythRussiaBombsJapanSovietSoviet UnionAmerican LifeAtomic BombStrong People Author:Oliver Stone
“Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.” PeopleWritingLittlesHelpingStoriesBeliefForceGrowsCausesAttitudeResearchAddHelp Me Author:Octavia Butler
“The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens of antibiotics, hormones, pain relievers, cough suppressants, disinfectants and other products. It is not known whether they are harmful to plants, animals or people. The findings were released yesterday on the Web site of the United States Geological Survey, which conducted the research, and in an online journal, Environmental Science and Technology.” PeopleStatesPainFoundWaterAnimalUnitedKnownTechnologyUnited StatesMinutesProductsAmountFindingsResearchPlantEnvironmentalYesterdayTreatmentOnlineDozenSiteJournalSurveysHormonesScience And TechnologyPlants And AnimalsAntibioticsEnvironmental Science Author:Andrew Revkin
“The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.” PeopleKnowsShowsValuesTelevisionResearchTraditionBrandsDevicesServingNavigation Author:Anne Sweeney
“The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.” PeopleWorldDifferentInterestingActingBrainTypeResearchI've LearnedDifferent ThingsSurgeryDifferent PeoplesInteresting ThingsBrain Surgery Author:Carla Gugino
“As soon as I say I'm from Texas people say, "Oh, I'm sure the school was horrible" and they picture me wearing some barrel and suspenders and people are bucktoothed and ignoring me. But that's not the case. I just had zero interest. I wanted to finish my research in the woods or play guitar or go have a cigarette.” PeoplePlayWantedSchoolInterestCasesResearchGuitarWoodsHorribleZeroTexasCigaretteBarrelsIgnore MeSuspenders Author:Tig Notaro
“The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.” PeopleIfsTruth IsNewsResearchBrandsTissuesBrand NewScientific Research Author:Juan Williams
“What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.” PeopleUsedResearchLibraryComplicatedUsed To BeEtcComplicated Relationship Author:Dermot Mulroney
“America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.” PeopleBookDifferentStoriesAmericaFeltGroupsResearchRootsPotMeltingHistory BooksMelting Pot Author:Nas
“Much of the research on the Nazi era makes a science out of distancing oneself from it or conjuring its demons. The conceit is that people were monsters then - as if they were completely different from people today.” PeopleIfsDifferentTodayResearchOneselfMonstersErasDemonNaziConceitConjuring Author:Gotz Aly
“More and more people are finding out the benefits of it - hemp and marijuana. The more they delve into it and research it, the more they realize, Hey wait a minute, we should give this another look.” PeopleGivingShouldLooksWaitingRealizingMinutesBenefitsFindingsResearchHeyMarijuanaHemp Author:Willie Nelson
“I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.” PeopleYearsStillsStoriesInspirationResearchYears AgoMythologyRelevantFolkloreStory People Author:Cassandra Clare
“Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.” PeopleWorldMayEndsHelpingRememberMillionsThis WorldResearchScientistSpeciesPopulationJust OneHelp MeBiologyEnd Of The World Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.” PeopleHumansAbleWantedCultureHuman BeingsGroupsMonthsSixJokesResearchStructureAtmosphereDirtySix MonthsDirty Jokes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingI CanOrderSexInterestSupportGroupsResearchPhonesIllnessTopicsForumsSupport Groups Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.” PeopleWorldNeedsStillsBookCharacterStrongDifferencesPayAttentionMoralInternetResearchMeaningfulMagazinesPay AttentionContributionOur WorldMoral Character Author:Zig Ziglar
“I always begin with a source of inspiration that comes from nature. The story comes from my research, volunteering, and meeting the people involved in that story world. I am an intuitive writer and an image, sound, experience can all inspire a scene or a plot twist!” PeopleWorldStoriesInspirationSoundInspireSourceInvolvedSceneResearchMeetingsPlotVolunteerTwistsIntuitiveSource Of InspirationPlot Twists Author:Mary Alice Monroe
“When I go to another country, I try to be a big sponge and look at what the houses may look like and what colors predominate. I do not do research as much as just get ideas and ask people about things.” PeopleTryingLooksMayIdeasCountryBigsAsksHouseColorResearchSponges Author:Jan Brett
“I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingHas BeensCountryAbleCultureAsksResearchAreasWorriedElsewhereOther Cultures Author:Uwem Akpan
“There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.” PeopleReasonViewsResearchScientific Research Author:George Coyne
“People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.” PeopleSometimesNamesIssuesPureResearchDeserveTechnologicalScientific Research Author:George Coyne
“I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.” PeopleThinkingIdeasStrongHavensResearch Author:Ken Thompson
“My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming characters but I don't enjoy becoming caricatures. The research I do is only necessary in so far as we move into other dimensions.” PeopleCharacterMovingActorsFunEnjoyBecomingResearchTasksDimensionsCaricatures Author:David Suchet
“To force yourself out of the comfort zone, the main ingredient is trying to work in a world where you haven't been before, that you don't know the rules of. And that involves a lot of research, so you begin to see where the other people have been, but you are starting from as vulnerable and as low a point as possible.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingHas BeensForceHavensComfortLowsResearchStartingVulnerableZoneIngredientsComfort Zone Author:Danny Boyle
“I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.” PeopleDoneRealitySchoolResearchUnreality Author:Billy Connolly
“I can tell you that my contribution based on my interpretation of the book is unchanged. The other things, in terms of doing the research and following the trail of it, were probably pretty similar to what I would have done then. I think that what makes me celebrate that it took the 10 years is the various other people and contributors that I ended up having on board.” PeopleThinkingYearsI CanBookDoneTermResearchVariousFollowingCelebrateBoardsContributionInterpretationTrailsContributors Author:Sean Penn
“There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.” PeopleBelieveMadeWhiteResearchPercentNoiseCognitiveCognitive SciencePascalWhite Noise Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.” PeopleIfsGivingWritingTryingSaidRealRememberLyingReadingFictionResearchDetailsMessInterviewsNonfictionCredibility Author:Edwidge Danticat
“By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.” PeopleKnowsWaySufferingDangerousCarSmartResearchDestructionScaredScalesPlanesDreadCrashEquationsUnlikelySmart PeopleCombiningSimplificationUnfairnessCar CrashPlane CrashesLack Of Control Author:Amanda Ripley
“I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.” PeopleWorldWayYearsKindLongRealMovingLawChoicesNextTermFieldsDisciplineMetsTenProjectsResearchCommitmentBuiltTraditionSeasonsMedicineCommittedLifestyleAll KindsFantasticLong TermMy TimeSincereAcademicLocationVisionariesLiving OnRigorCafeteriaLifestyle ChoicesFieldwork Author:Aleksandra Mir
“"Naming Tokyo" kicked off at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in June, and it's going to travel to various art institutions for years to come. Every time it is shown, I'm developing the research and involving more and more people in it. The final conclusion of the work would eventually be to put up street signs in Tokyo with my names on them.” PeopleYearsArtNamesStreetsResearchInstitutionsFinalsVariousConclusionDevelopingParisJuneInvolvingTokyo Author:Aleksandra Mir
“I could not write my books without the library's help. Even with the ease of Internet research, I find books to be indispensable when I am writing. ... Books make me laugh, cry, and think. They give me insight into history, and into the lives of people in other cultures. They help me make important decisions, and they provide endless entertainment. Hooray for libraries!” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingImportantBookHelpingCultureDecisionLaughingCryInternetResearchGive MeLibraryEntertainmentInsightEndlessEaseHelp MeIndispensableWriting A BookMake Me LaughOther CulturesImportant Decisions Author:Peg Kehret
“What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisles — to get people hooked on foods that are convenient and inexpensive.” PeopleYearsFoundEffortFourResearchConsciousMeetingsMarketingStoresFour YearsConvenientGroceriesHookedLabsAisleGrocery StoresInexpensive Author:Michael Moss
“My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.” PeopleWaySometimesReasonFoundBeliefEasierResearchMirrorsAngryAssumingPrioritiesCuriousRejectionAssumptionFrustratedConstraints Author:Gary A. Klein
“Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.” PeopleWayPersonsLongDifferentUseUsedLanguageEventsFieldsResearchMethodInterviewsLife ExperienceMultipleSociologySessionAnthropologyResearchersConductingOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history projects so that audiences can read them. It's important that researchers have many different tools available to study people's lives and the cultures we live in. I think oral history is a most needed and uniquely important strategy.” PeopleThinkingWritingImportantBookDifferentUseCultureUnderstandingAudienceStudyNeededProjectsResearchToolsMethodStrategyAvailableResearchersQualitativeOral History Author:Patricia Leavy
“Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPhilosophyWantedJobsFallAsksFocusMagicGroupsDesignProductsResearchFalling In LoveAlways BelieveFocus Groups Author:Steve Case
“From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.” PeopleIfsShouldStuffViewsClearResearchPoint Of ViewOperating SystemsUnixOld Stuff Author:Dennis Ritchie
“I love the fact that in the cancer universe you have a lot of money going towards research, but this is about cancer support. It allows people to receive information to facilitate their healing. It's a revelation and just phenomenal.” PeopleFactsUniverseHealingSupportInformationResearchCancerRevelationsLots Of MoneyPhenomenalFacilitate Author:Billy Zane
“I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsKindTwoEndsSometimesHelpingActorsPiecesMaterialsResearchVisualsDepartmentNow And ThenDense Author:David Michod
“Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.” PeopleBelieveShowsDifferencesResearchMaking A DifferenceApology Author:David D. Burns
“Apple does all of its research and development in America. It has all these brilliant people sitting in Silicon Valley. But until recently, Apple made nothing in America. Zero. And the jobs that were accessible to a good, well-trained worker that knew how to do welding or assembly, none of those jobs had stayed in America. We don't have the workforce.” PeopleWellsDoeMadeJobsAmericaDevelopmentResearchSittingWorkersBrilliantApplesZeroValleysAssemblySiliconWorkforceSilicon ValleyResearch And DevelopmentWelding Author:Michael Porter
“I think there's a need for somewhat of a mindset change. We need to have a consistent external focus. We've always had the research labs. We've always had the resources to be innovative, and we've been innovative in a number of businesses. But, in any big company, you have to constantly push people to look at markets and customers, rather than look internally at themselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksBigsNumbersCompanyFocusResearchResourcesCustomersMindsetConsistentInnovativeLabsBig Companies Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.” PeopleKnowsWantResearch Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If the kingdom of God had departments, we’d want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn’t hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let’s not wait for people to come to us, let’s go to them.” PeopleIfsWantWellsJesusFeltWaitingDevelopmentResearchKingdomsDepartmentHanging OutHungKingdom Of GodResearch And DevelopmentPostmodernSynagogue Author:Mark Batterson