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Signals Quotes

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.234, VM eBooks

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

"Extemporaneous discourses : delivered in the Broadway church, New York" by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Publisher: New York: O. Hutchinson, (p. 319), 1860.

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

"World Science Festival: Brian Greene and Alan Alda Bring Science to the Masses". Interview with Clare Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 02, 2011.

The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.

Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.3, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.313, W. W. Norton & Company