Factor Quotes

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. View quote
Hesiod
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. View quote
Bill Gates
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. View quote
Edsger W. Dijkstra
And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again. View quote
Robert Sternberg
There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media. View quote
Alva Myrdal
You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation. View quote
Ennio Morricone
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. (Sinclair Lewis)
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. View quote
William James
I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor. View quote
Nancy Pelosi
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. View quote
Mao Zedong
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. View quote
Dave Barry
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. View quote
James Henry Breasted
War, we are told, shapes character; it resolves the major questions of international politics, consolidates nations, and indeed, constitutes the principal factor in the progress of civilization through its successive stages. View quote
Elie Ducommun
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. (Bob Schieffer)
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. View quote
Betty Buckley
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. View quote
Bill Shoemaker
The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music. View quote
Branford Marsalis
Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. View quote
Buffy Sainte-Marie