Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn’t mean simply ‘talking through problems,’ as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves. – Bruce Feiler
From initial concept to final build, ‘Train’ was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface. – Brenda Brathwaite
There are a lot of hardcore ‘Napoleon’ fans, and they do the research and find photos of what I look like when I’m not ‘Kip-ified.’ Those fans recognize me. It happens maybe once a week, where someone will come up to me and be, like, ‘Dude, you’re Kip.’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, my name’s Aaron.’ – Aaron Ruell
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments. – Barry Schwartz
In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons. – Andrei Sakharov
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I’m personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen. – Aaron Patzer
There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others’ ideas about what is okay. – Ben Goldacre
I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970. – Aage Bohr
I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible. – A. J. Jacobs
I often make films about subjects I don’t really know much about. Maybe it’s laziness, but I don’t go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I’m making the film. – Asif Kapadia
23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public – our more than 180,000 customers. – Anne Wojcicki
Being able to do research in a real-time way is the way research needs to be done in the future. – Anne Wojcicki
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer. – Barry Marshall
We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs. – Anthony Pratt
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. – Clayton Christensen
In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell research. That’s right, the President said, this is a quote, the research could help cure brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and whatever it is I have. – Conan O’Brien
I’m publicizing the book that’s done. I’m writing the book that’s in the hopper, and I’m doing a little advance research on the book to come. – Ann Rule
In my own research when I’m working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I’m doing if I’m solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I’m constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind’s-eye picture. – Brian Greene
Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation. – Andy Serkis
Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me. – Anne Rivers Siddons
I never pay any attention. I’m sure it’s not such a good way to be, but I don’t really follow market research. – Anna Wintour
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity – that will then be the baseline of my research for the day. – Ben Schott
I’ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. – Clifford Geertz
I love research. When there’s something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there. – Anna Sui
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases. – Anthony Fauci
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. – Ben Bernanke
The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you’re dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film. – Alessandro Nivola
I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way – I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now – how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized. – Ada Yonath
