Information Quotes

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

America's definitely a trendsetter, and it's where a lot of information goes out to the rest of the world.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

The key to security is public information.

What you earn depends on what you learn.

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information-hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.

Information is only useful when it can be understood

Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

For the robust, an error is information.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

Now as jazz musicians we're saying for this society, you can free up your imagination. You can proceed in an area without much information and you can function in an area without much information.

Information is power. If you have information about the whole planet you have power over the whole planet. By knowing what people do in Germany they, of course, have power over them.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

The world is too full of information.

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

The viewer brings all additional information to the image.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.

Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.