There are two ways of lying. One not telling the truth and the other making up statistics.
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
They read their sports pages know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans pro or con over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
I'm a visual thinker really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics all of the weather statistics.
I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating very few survive.
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport obviously. And in finance too.
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics it's about experience it's about participation it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Like dreams statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
For me unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure or design or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
I'm doing everything that I can working with experts really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show because usually when the computer breaks down once that is the end of it for a long long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
Statistics suggest that when customers complain business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.