Research Quotes - page 8

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing. (Tim Robbins)
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research. View quote
Walter Lord
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together. View quote
Helen Fisher
You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. View quote
Ernest Klein
I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend. View quote
Ernest Klein
At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. View quote
Joseph Rotblat
Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence. View quote
Ben Goldacre
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay. View quote
Ben Goldacre
I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents... I try to get inside my stories. View quote
Ben Mezrich
The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. (Adriana Trigiani)
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go. View quote
Bill Joy
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research. View quote
Walter Moers
Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. View quote
Daniel Gilbert
It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive. View quote
Alex Berenson
I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it. View quote
Jason Momoa
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story. View quote
Jean M. Auel
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. View quote
Douglas Preston
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop defense mechanisms, such as media-savvy attitudes or ironic dispositions. Then marketers research these defenses, develop new countermeasures, and on it goes. (Douglas Rushkoff)
For decades, my research was driven by outstanding problems in macroeconomics: mainly growth theory and employment theory. View quote
Edmund Phelps
Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves. View quote
Amy Chua
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. View quote
Ken Follett
The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying. View quote
Ken Follett