For far too long we have continued to mark our military prowess by the size of our forces: believing that numbers of ships, planes, and brigades is what most matters – just like during the Cold War.
Numbers can’t speak for themselves, and data sets – no matter their scale – are still objects of human design.
The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, ‘I see you. I support you. I get it.’
Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we’re doing that 24 hours a day.
I didn’t go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don’t need no more schoolin’. You need to get out in the water and swim.
There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland – these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
I believe in numbers and signs.
Whenever you have large numbers of people who are dying for preventable reasons, that constitutes a public health issue.
I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I’d continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.
American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
I’m not worried about good numbers or bad numbers. You worry about the process.
If there are healthy – and growing – numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
I don’t really look at numbers. I couldn’t tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.
I have written a book called ‘In the Wonderland of Numbers.’ It’s about a young girl, Neha, who is very poor in mathematics, but in a series of illusory experiences, she becomes a great mathematician.
When it comes to making decisions, I’m not what you’d call a numbers guy.
When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology.
Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.
I still remember most people in the industry warning me that I was not playing the stardom game and that I was becoming niche because these content films don’t do big numbers.
As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
We’ve been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940.
The reason there’s a ‘Hellboy 2’ is not because the studios were passionate about the first one; it’s because the numbers made sense.
Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.
It wasn’t like anybody said, ‘Oh, Ronald Reagan will have a landslide in 1980.’ In fact, you look back at the Dukakis numbers, the Perot numbers, there was always this presumption that the Republican was going to lose. Not just that the Democrat would win, but that the Republican was going to lose.
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture – only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
I’m not a numbers type of guy who says I need this many yards, this many touchdowns.
Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, ‘Bronzeville,’ in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we’re developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn’t do anything for me.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.
I think there’s really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it’s a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don’t totally understand why they’re on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.
We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It’s quick. We don’t have to meet quarterly numbers, and it’s all about excellence of work for the client.
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn’t have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Once you’re in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, ‘Aha!’ and ‘Tada’ at the end of the numbers; but it’s a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.
Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things.
I think that if you were to probe a lot of people’s religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.
It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads.
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier’s checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that’s how people will judge you.
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi – that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
The E.U. should pay more attention to the plight of African nations hosting large numbers of refugees themselves – at times for decades.
One of the reasons why Australia and Canada have support for migration is because they control the numbers.
Professional or amateur, athletes want to see progress. We like to see numbers and metrics improve, and when you have deeper insight into what’s going on inside your body, you’re empowered to make changes to improve and become stronger.
In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.
It’s one thing to wear jerseys at games, which fans have been doing in great numbers for 30 years, dressing as if they might be summoned from the stands on a moment’s notice to pinch-run. But those same jerseys are now omnipresent on airplanes, in restaurants, in doctor’s waiting rooms.
