David Autor Quotes

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David Autor

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Think
  • Forever
  • Inside

• I really wanted to be a writer.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Wanted
  • Writer
  • Really

• I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Love
  • City
  • Tokyo

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Hero
  • Living
  • Legend

• A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • May
  • True

• If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Duty

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • Way
  • You

• To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Scary

• Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Nature

• Illustrious predecessor.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Moving

• Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Government
  • Bigger
  • Hips

• I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Creativity, after all, does not happen on schedule or on demand.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Creativity
  • Demand

• Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • Walks
  • Genies

• Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

  

  David Autor