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"One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important."
"...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are."
"You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references."
"The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best."
"The world of research has gone berserk. Too much paper work."
"My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them."
"Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and so with wooden ploughs we continue to draw lonely furrows, most successfully when we strike sand."
"I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances."
"Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement."
"But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings."
"[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize."
"It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it."
"The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society."
"Play is the highest from of research."
"You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions."
"When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong."
"It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
"What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research."
"I did no research on The Best Man. That was something that came out from my own head."
"Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research."
