Ben Goldacre
Related When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing. CHARLES K. KAO Absolutely amazing things happen when you believe. FREDERIQUE MURPHY Archaeologists use datasets from NASA and commercial satellites, processing the information using va... SARAH PARCAK DEBORAH NORVILLE Just as the mind emerges from the actions of individual neurons and their cooperation, the success o... JUSTIN ROSENSTEIN SYDNEY SMITH If you break them off into individual pieces, they are not that impressive, ... But they play well t... WARREN SAPP When a school of 1,000 kids and all the staff come together, amazing things are going to happen. KRISTY GLASSEN HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hopefully our kids will respond. Maybe, this will pull everyone together. Funny things can happen wh... DIANE FOLI EMMA WATSON Think positively! Pull your finance together as soon as possible during the economic slowdown. Don't... ZENG HAN JUN Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU TIA MOWRY WALTER ISAACSON You have to pick up the pieces and pull yourself together. We wanted to make sure we took this chanc... BECKIE SCOTT We've had quite a bunch of things brought in ... every type, from real small there, to some larger p... TOMMY MADDOX Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. EVAN ESAR When you buy an individual stock, anything can happen. BILL HOLLAND If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN TRACEE ELLIS ROSS HAROLD S. GENEEN Once you get started, you can get enthused about individual pieces, so when you come across somethin... KRISTAN CUNNINGHAM It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented... P.J. BAYLISS PETER GUBER Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some f... GARRY WINOGRAND Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and des... BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY It's amazing how many thefts still occur from oversights such as leaving the car running when you go... FRANK SCAFIDI There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces toge... FEIST I don't really think dreams have real meaning. Some people believe in that. I just think it'... EUGENIE BOUCHARD I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we... ANTONIO MCDYESS DOROTHY L. SAYERS The information is out there. You just have to separate the facts from the wives' tales. LARRY ROGERS JOHN ANDERSON Anytime you get the whole team together, good things happen. MARK MADSEN The pieces do not fit, as much as you want to jimmy them together. ALAN KONOP Not that pain is the worst thing in the universe. Interesting things happen when you adapt pain for ... SHELLEY JACKSON When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the... OZWALD BOATENG HERMANN HESSE As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being. HARRISON OWEN PABLO SANDOVAL SHANNON L. ALDER Obtaining knowledge is like a puzzle, ones you get the bits, and pieces, you and piece it all togeth... JARED DAKOTA DARTY MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Very often, when leaders repeat things over and over, they are preparing you for when that meme actu... TIMOTHY D. SNYDER NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The best things happen when you're not overthinking it. BEN ZOBRIST That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen. MARIANO RIVERA EUNY HONG JOE NAMATH The idea is, if you put a bunch of great people together, good things will happen. DAN O'DONNELL VERNON WELLS If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen. ERIK HERSMAN TOM HIDDLESTON There are a lot of things coming together in February -- that's probably when things will happen. KUNDA DIXIT The summers are the time when you can get better as an individual. He didn't have that and he had to... GREG GARD Your brain is capable of juggling lots of facts and possibilities at the same time when you let it w... AP DIJKSTERHUIS We didn't know there was this urgent need to produce these things. They said, 'Can you pull a rabbit... TODD DAVISON You can train as hard as you want to, and your spike catches in the ground and all of a sudden you h... WILL OHMAN It's nice when you can get five players into double figures. We had a lot of contributors tonight. RON PUCCI Often times, a person will think they know you by piecing together tiny facts and arranging those pi... VICTORIA ERICKSON When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patien... KARL EIKENBERRY CLEVELAND AMORY EPICTETUS J. P. MORGAN JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN STEVE MARABOLI YO-YO MA MATT KEMP Great things happen to you when you least expect it. KISHAN S CHAUHAN Sometimes when you have success over and over, you lose that hunger of wanting to be successful. The... BILL LEGG To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can... JOANNA GOING JOE PERRY Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have cre... JOAN HALIFAX SUNDAY ADELAJA I don't think it's a good idea being that I work overseas a lot, a lot of things could happen with m... CAMERON JOHNSON EURIPIDES JOYCE MEYER That moment when your heart falls into pieces, not because he broke it but because you fell to piece... GINA JAMMAL Don't hang with negative people. They will pull you down with them. Instead, invite them into your l... L.F. YOUNG I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. CHARLES VAN DOREN Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope... JUDY BLUME ROSE WILDER LANE MEHMET MURAT ILDAN ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA GEORGE CARLIN PATRICK KAVANAGH DADA BHAGWAN PABLO PICASSO DEEP ROY Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things. MARY HIGGINS CLARK E.M. FORSTER Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember. JULIA WALTON This didn't happen by accident. The city council made this happen, and Judy Clark worked very hard t... DAVE HARROLD ROBERT COLLIER
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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. 
Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious... 
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd... 
If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing thin... 
Society tends to always make multiples - whether it's twins or triplets or whatever - one person... 
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something ... 
Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your informatio... 
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the... 
The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - re... 
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the charact... 
It's probably boulder-sized or larger pieces just touching each other, not pressing hard together. 
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and eff... 
I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; y... 
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actua... 
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyw... 
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen. 
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive. 
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing thing... 
It's amazing. It just comes at the times when you never know what can happen. [Comebacks] come in a ... 
I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Be... 
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very st... 
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to... 
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen. 
When you expect things to happen -- strangely enough -- they do happen. 
It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you parti... 
Good things happen when you meet strangers. 
When you think positive, good things happen. 
I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play toge... 
Only when time is converted can you produce something from it. 
They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in... 
Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the ver... 
You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human pow... 
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One of the big lessons I have learnt from my life is that things are never as difficult as they seem... 
The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender... 
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur... 
When you ‘oblige’ someone, things will happen according to your wishes, and if you harm someone,... 
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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good thing... 
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them... 
Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
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More academics should blog, post videos, post audio, post lectures, offer articles and more. You'... 
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This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
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A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
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No one will do it for you. 
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee. 
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