Unseen Factors Quotes

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

It's true that some countries have more volatility, but each also has nuances we don't even know about.

There's a lot of things you don't see on the stats.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

There's so much visible stuff around now, we're tempted to forget that it's usually the invisible that matters most.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

Stats are something which can't define everything. It could be hiding more things than it shows.

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.