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Learning by anecdote is risky, but waiting for scientific proof is too. — Guy Kawasaki

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote. — Martin Heidegger

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime. — Sara Sheridan

The plural of anecdote is not data. — Marc Bekoff

My life is dope and I do dope shit. — Kanye West

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing

A life saved is a statistic; a person hurt is an anecdote. Statistics are invisible; anecdotes are salient. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does. — J. Willard Marriott

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote. — David Nicholls

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote. — Charlotte Gray

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I take for granted that you'll be there when I'm done doing whatever it is I'm doing. I take for granted that you'll love me no matter what. — Rainbow Rowell

Because he likes you, Melbourne. That's what guys do. They buy dinner and gifts, hoping that in return you'll - um, like them back. — Richelle Mead

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day. — Theodore Parker

A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices. — Travis McDade

No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare — Carmine Galante

It took me a lifetime. — Pablo Picasso

Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father deemed as 'too long. — Wes Locher

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". — A.A. Milne

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have. — Charles Baxter

The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the first family anecdote that was told. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn

Good anecdote
bad reality. — Carrie Fisher

The plural on anecdote is not evidence — Michael Mauboussin

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact. — Maira Kalman

This is the worst of our ways of remembering
this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism. — Kamila Shamsie

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data. — Robert Lane Greene

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. — Mark Rothko

I will only lead by guiding.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
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September 29, 2016 — Petra Hermans

An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly

The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes. — Paullina Simons

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. — Cheryl Strayed

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times. — Mark Rothko

Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. — Jon Ronson