Surveys Quotes

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

These surveys confirm the country's growing concern about excessive secrecy. They also show that citizens overwhelmingly believe that open government is good government. The public understands that openness - to the greatest degree possible - will produce government that is more efficient, more honest and more responsive to the citizens it serves.

We talk to anyone in the community. There are times when we have just parent surveys or just student surveys. But this one is for anyone over 18 in a household.

I place more emphasis on jobs numbers than on confidence surveys in estimating consumers' attitudes. And that has not looked promising.

We know by surveys that North Dakota is No. 1 for binge drinking. We're trying to change a social norm that says underage drinking is OK.

Extensive surveys conducted over the course of four separate elections revealed that barriers impeding or blocking disabled access to Santa Cruz and Kern county polls were pervasive and are unlikely to be fully corrected without strong action, ... I hope these lawsuits will help ensure that all California voters, including the disabled, are able to freely and equally exercise their right to vote.

We can't verify the accuracy of the numbers. All of our internal surveys show high customer satisfaction. And after a review of the complaints involving Prudential, it seems clear that since 1997, the number of complaints has consistently gone down.

Having a survey without bias is clearly the goal here. Surveys are tricky. You can load a question and I'd like to really avoid that. We'll make the questions as neutral as possible.

In all our surveys, the students keep saying: 'Yep, we love it, but can we have more regional classes or can we see the lecturers more?

Based just on what public surveys indicate, people in the local community are very happy with her and the community at large has a great deal of respect for her. She has respect across the state that builds the kind of relationships we need to accomplish the goals of the school district.

But people are still in love with traditional surveys in spite of my repeated advice against them.

Growth did dip in the fourth quarter, but all of the business surveys suggest it will bounce back quite strongly.

Getting information in these surveys will realistically take 45-60 days. But we're going to push for this.

January purchasing managers' surveys signal that the impressive acceleration in manufacturing activity from the final quarter of 2005 has carried over into the new year.

The ISM data really do look very strong, but you have to remember that these surveys simply ask whether things are getting better, getting worse, or staying the same.

It's just sheer luck. That's what surveys are about.

We try to limit the number of times a person participates in these surveys - for instance, they often don't want someone who has done similar studies every month.