Research Skills Quotes

Don’t believe everything the professors tell you. Get your own information on your own terms.

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

People often talk about parachute journalism, but one of the skills that you get when you are a correspondent is the ability to look at facts fast and work out what the story is.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.

A lot of times I'm on my own trying to find research material and things like that and trying to educate myself on the world and the film that I'm working on.

The new generation of researchers must be given the skills and values - not just scientific ideals, but also awareness of human weaknesses - that will enable it to correct its forebears' mistakes.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

It is a dire need for our young scientists to be proficient in running and using their lab equipment rather than depending on their assistants or workers. Once they learn how to use every lab equipment, their scientific career is likely to progress smoothly.

“Google” is not a synonym for “research.”

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

I'm enjoying doing research, to get better at the guitar, to get better at rhyming. That's an essential skill.

I feel that it's very important for young people to have a sense of history and do research and don't re-invent the wheel and don't think that you're the first martyr to discover social injustice but to take advantage of previous generations of activists and find out what they did and how they resolved things.

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

Investors who find the best businesses to put their money behind are rewarded for their research.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.