The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.
There are no statements in my paintings at all. Quite the opposite - I don't like people to go looking for them. If something makes me laugh, that's it.
Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.
I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice.
All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.
Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.
There are lots of statements that have been made and haven't led to change and reform. For me, the broader discussion around racism - education is key.
The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.
On many issues, including on the use of nuclear weapons, it is not clear where [Donald] Trump stands, due to his contradictory statements.
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
I'll go through the budgets for tours and recordings, royalty statements... You have to wise up about it a bit more.
More Democrats should be speaking without vetting their statements through their staff because it will feel realer.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements.
Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.
The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.
Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.
A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
One thing I don't do anymore as I've gotten older is that I don't make big blanket statements about whether or not an artist is good or bad.
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.
Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.
I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.
Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.
You can get away with making some extremely bold statements by Trojan Horsing them into a narrative via comedy.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.
You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.
The only universal attribute of scientific statements resides in their potential fallibility. If a claim cannot be disproven, it does not belong to the enterprise of science.
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.
I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.
Affirmation statements are going beyond the reality of the present into the creation of the future through the words you use in the now.
I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.
To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.
That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.
Priebus has been trying to clean up for Donald Trump for far too long. When he was making outrageous statements, when he was basically lying.
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.
I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.
A pile of bills and statements - whether paid or not - is a sign that someone is clueless about what's coming in and going out.
I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in.
There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.
Tokyo Sonata speaks to us, with feeling and passion, as one of the most eloquent statements on the world today that we are likely to see in this moviegoing year.
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