Sendhil Mullainathan Quotes
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.Sendhil Mullainathan
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
Barry Jenkins -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull -
'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
Magnus Scheving -
There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
Adam Cohen -
When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
Dan Quinn
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey -
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
Peter Carey -
Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
Arundhati Bhattacharya -
I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.
Ken Salazar -
I never want to hurt no one to the point so they can't go back to their children.
Deontay Wilder -
The core of all religions is a belief in a supreme personal god.
Frank Tipler
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It's talent. Either you got it or you ain't.
Mel Brooks -
People don't want to treat their nannies subserviently. They don't want to act like bosses. And so nobody quite knows how to behave, and everyone is slightly pretending that the mother and nanny are 'equal' - when that's not the case. And pretending you are equal can make things complicated, even dangerous.
Leila Slimani -
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.
George Papandreou -
I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
George R. R. Martin -
Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window.
Delia Smith -
In the back I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they live with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever.
The Ultimate Warrior
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Your practical results will improve when you play what you know, like and have confidence in.
Edmar Mednis -
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.
Sendhil Mullainathan