Perspectiva fenomenológica — Los investigadores cualitativos tratan de comprender a las personas dentro del marco de referencia de ellas mismas... es esencial experimentar la realidad tal como otros la experimentan.

En los estudios cualitativos los investigadores siguen un diseño de la investigación flexible. Comienzan sus estudios con interrogantes sólo vagamente formulados.

"metodología cualitativa se refiere en su más amplio sentido a la investigación que produce datos descriptivos: las propias palabras de las personas, habladas o escritas, y la conducta observable"

En la metodología cualitativa el investigador ve al escenario y a las personas en una perspectiva holística

Investigadores sociales son naturalistas:

el investigador cualitativo ve las cosas como si ellas estuvieran ocurriendo por primera vez. Nada se da por sobrentendido. Todo es un tema de investigación. Página 8

Para el investigador cualitativo, todas las perspectivas son valiosas.

Los Métodos Cualitativos son humanistas

Los investigadores cualitativos dan énfasis a la validez en su investigación.

Para el investigador cualitativo, todos los escenarios y personas son dignos de estudio.

El investigador social es un artífice.

Dos enfoques teóricos que pertenecen la tradición fenomenológica:

Not everyone gets a second chance. If you do get one, take advantage of it because it's a gift, and it may be something better than you had before!

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

I'm just a poor boy from the cornfields of Richmond, Virginia. I'm proud because I loved baseball and played with the best.

The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.

When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek publishers who'd just bought two of my books for pounds 500.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

To the world you may be just one person, but to me you are the world.

Interviews don't go to the core of my life. Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

To anyone out there who's hurting—it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It's a sign of strength.

If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.

You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.