A Quote by Darrell Huff

Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Darrell Huff

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Imagination More Much Novelist Scope Statistician

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Darrell Huff
American - Writer
July 15, 1913 - June 27, 2001

Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

Herman Chernoff

The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

John Dewey

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Robert Rodriguez

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

Anne Fadiman

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Pat Conroy

I realized that my identity as a novelist was private. Only I knew how much of a novelist I was!

Alexander Chee

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

Henry David Thoreau

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Havelock Ellis

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I'm more into the perception scope of a work; I'm exploring this concept of perception and how people can look at someone, look at the community, and put in so much judgment, so much stereotype, so much misconception.

eL Seed

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.

Floyd Skloot

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

Ashley Judd

A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination.

Honore de Balzac

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.